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CVE-2021-46965 Detail

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")


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Hyperlink Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34ec706bf0b7c4ca249a729c1bcb91f706c7a7be
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d786870e3262ec098a3b4ed10b895176bc66ecb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e4ebb827bf09311469ffd9d0c14ed40ed9747aa
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/683313993dbe1651c7aa00bb42a041d70e914925

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-46965
NVD Published Date:
02/27/2024
NVD Last Modified:
02/28/2024
Source:
kernel.org