CVE-2021-47612

unknown

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: fix segfault in nfc_genl_dump_devices_done When kmalloc in nfc_genl_dump_devices() fails then nfc_genl_dump_devices_done() segfaults as below KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f] CPU: 0 PID: 25 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc4-01180-g2a987e65025e-dirty #5 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-6.fc35 04/01/2014 Workqueue: events netlink_sock_destruct_work RIP: 0010:klist_iter_exit+0x26/0x80 Call Trace: <TASK> class_dev_iter_exit+0x15/0x20 nfc_genl_dump_devices_done+0x3b/0x50 genl_lock_done+0x84/0xd0 netlink_sock_destruct+0x8f/0x270 __sk_destruct+0x64/0x3b0 sk_destruct+0xa8/0xd0 __sk_free+0x2e8/0x3d0 sk_free+0x51/0x90 netlink_sock_destruct_work+0x1c/0x20 process_one_work+0x411/0x710 worker_thread+0x6fd/0xa80

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
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Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`5.15.15-1`
sid	Fixed	`5.15.15-1`
forky	Fixed	`5.15.15-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.10.92-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`5.15.15-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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