CVE-2021-47003

dmaengine: idxd: Fix potential null dereference on pointer status

published February 28, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

dmaengine: idxd: Fix potential null dereference on pointer status

There are calls to idxd_cmd_exec that pass a null status pointer however

a recent commit has added an assignment to *status that can end up

with a null pointer dereference. The function expects a null status

pointer sometimes as there is a later assignment to *status where

status is first null checked. Fix the issue by null checking status

before making the assignment.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Explicit null dereferenced")

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00236 · 13.7th percentile
Published
2024-02-28T08:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 FEB 08:13Z
    dmaengine: idxd: Fix potential null dereference on pointer status
    cvelistv5