CVE-2021-46920

dmaengine: idxd: Fix clobbering of SWERR overflow bit on writeback

Medium · published February 27, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dmaengine: idxd: Fix clobbering of SWERR overflow bit on writeback

Current code blindly writes over the SWERR and the OVERFLOW bits. Write

back the bits actually read instead so the driver avoids clobbering the

OVERFLOW bit that comes after the register is read.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00218 · 11.6th percentile
Published
2024-02-27T06:53Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 FEB 06:53Z
    dmaengine: idxd: Fix clobbering of SWERR overflow bit on writeback
    cvelistv5