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CVE-2021-47165

drm/meson: fix shutdown crash when component not probed

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.14.235, 4.19.193, 5.4.124, 5.10.42, 5.12
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/meson: fix shutdown crash when component not probed When main component is not probed, by example when the dw-hdmi module is not loaded yet or in probe defer, the following crash appears on shutdown: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000038 ... pc : meson_drv_shutdown+0x24/0x50 lr : platform_drv_shutdown+0x20/0x30 ... Call trace: meson_drv_shutdown+0x24/0x50 platform_drv_shutdown+0x20/0x30 device_shutdown+0x158/0x360 kernel_restart_prepare+0x38/0x48 kernel_restart+0x18/0x68 __do_sys_reboot+0x224/0x250 __arm64_sys_reboot+0x24/0x30 ... Simply check if the priv struct has been allocated before using it.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 4.14.226 · fixed in 4.14.235; From 4.19.181 · fixed in 4.19.193; From 5.4.106 · fixed in 5.4.124; From 5.10.24 · fixed in 5.10.42; From 5.11.7 · fixed in 5.12

  • Linux Linux

    5.12

References 6

git.kernel.org