vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2021-47650): linux vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Feb 26, 2025 | Mar 3, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: soc-compress: prevent the potentially use of null pointer
There is one call trace that snd_soc_register_card()
->snd_soc_bind_card()->soc_init_pcm_runtime()
->snd_soc_dai_compress_new()->snd_soc_new_compress().
In the trace the 'codec_dai' transfers from card->dai_link,
and we can see from the snd_soc_add_pcm_runtime() in
snd_soc_bind_card() that, if value of card->dai_link->num_codecs
is 0, then 'codec_dai' could be null pointer caused
by index out of bound in 'asoc_rtd_to_codec(rtd, 0)'.
And snd_soc_register_card() is called by various platforms.
Therefore, it is better to add the check in the case of misusing.
And because 'cpu_dai' has already checked in soc_init_pcm_runtime(),
there is no need to check again.
Adding the check as follow, then if 'codec_dai' is null,
snd_soc_new_compress() will not pass through the check
'if (playback + capture != 1)', avoiding the leftover use of
'codec_dai'.
Solutions
References
- CVE-2021-47650
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-47650
- CWE-476
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/de2c6f98817fa5decb9b7d3b3a8a3ab864c10588
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08af6da684b44097ea09f1d74d5858b837ed203b
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4639c1d97f385f4784f44d66a3da0672f4951ada
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68a69ad8df959e5211ed4a8e120783b2d352ea74
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de2c6f98817fa5decb9b7d3b3a8a3ab864c10588
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f69a75cb8a98c6c487d620442c68595726a69f60
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc237b8d624f4bcb0f21a532627ce4e3b3a85569
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47650
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