vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2021-46965: kernel: mtd: physmap: physmap-bt1-rom: Fix unintentional stack access
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C) | Feb 27, 2024 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mtd: physmap: physmap-bt1-rom: Fix unintentional stack access
Cast &data to (char *) in order to avoid unintentionally accessing
the stack.
Notice that data is of type u32, so any increment to &data
will be in the order of 4-byte chunks, and this piece of code
is actually intended to be a byte offset.
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1497765 ("Out-of-bounds access")
Solution
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
References
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