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CVE-2021-47475 Details

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: comedi: vmk80xx: fix transfer-buffer overflows The driver uses endpoint-sized USB transfer buffers but up until recently had no sanity checks on the sizes. Commit e1f13c879a7c ("staging: comedi: check validity of wMaxPacketSize of usb endpoints found") inadvertently fixed NULL-pointer dereferences when accessing the transfer buffers in case a malicious device has a zero wMaxPacketSize. Make sure to allocate buffers large enough to handle also the other accesses that are done without a size check (e.g. byte 18 in vmk80xx_cnt_insn_read() for the VMK8061_MODEL) to avoid writing beyond the buffers, for example, when doing descriptor fuzzing. The original driver was for a low-speed device with 8-byte buffers. Support was later added for a device that uses bulk transfers and is presumably a full-speed device with a maximum 64-byte wMaxPacketSize.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06ac746d57e6d32b062e220415c607b7e2e0fa50 kernel.orgPatch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/199acd8c110e3ae62833c24f632b0bb1c9f012a9 kernel.orgPatch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/278484ae93297b1bb1ce755f9d3b6d95a48c7d47 kernel.orgPatch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33d7a470730dfe7c9bfc8da84575cf2cedd60d00 kernel.orgPatch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40d2a7e278e2e7c0a5fd7e997e7eb63945bf93f7 kernel.orgPatch

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
linux linux kernel
>= 2.6.31, < 4.4.292
>= 4.5, < 4.9.290
>= 4.10, < 4.14.255
>= 4.15, < 4.19.217
>= 4.20, < 5.4.159

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

6 change records found show changes


QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-47475
NVD Published Date:
May 22, 2024
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
kernel.org