Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-47179 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSv4: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in pnfs_mark_matching_lsegs_return() Commit de144ff4234f changes _pnfs_return_layout() to call pnfs_mark_matching_lsegs_return() passing NULL as the struct pnfs_layout_range argument. Unfortunately, pnfs_mark_matching_lsegs_return() doesn't check if we have a value here before dereferencing it, causing an oops. I'm able to hit this crash consistently when running connectathon basic tests on NFS v4.1/v4.2 against Ontap.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e1ba532dbc1a0e19fc2458d74ab8d98680c4e42
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42637ca25c7d7b5a92804a679af5192e8c1a9f48
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39785761feadf261bc5101372b0b0bbaf6a94494
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aba3c7795f51717ae316f3566442dee7cc3eeccb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9890652185b72b8de9ebeb4406037640b6e1b53
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b090d110e66636bca473fd8b98d5c97b555a965a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a421d218603ffa822a0b8045055c03eae394a7eb