vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-28972: kernel: Buffer overflow in hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 22, 2021
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

In drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8, the RPA PCI Hotplug driver has a user-tolerable buffer overflow when writing a new device name to the driver from userspace, allowing userspace to write data to the kernel stack frame directly. This occurs because add_slot_store and remove_slot_store mishandle drc_name '\0' termination, aka CID-cc7a0bb058b8.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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