CVE-2021-47282
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2021
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
spi: bcm2835: Fix out-of-bounds access with more than 4 slaves
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: bcm2835: Fix out-of-bounds access with more than 4 slaves Commit 571e31fa60b3 ("spi: bcm2835: Cache CS register value for ->prepare_message()") limited the number of slaves to 3 at compile-time. The limitation was necessitated by a statically-sized array prepare_cs[] in the driver private data which contains a per-slave register value. The commit sought to enforce the limitation at run-time by setting the controller's num_chipselect to 3: Slaves with a higher chipselect are rejected by spi_add_device(). However the commit neglected that num_chipselect only limits the number of *native* chipselects. If GPIO chipselects are specified in the device tree for more than 3 slaves, num_chipselect is silently raised by of_spi_get_gpio_numbers() and the result are out-of-bounds accesses to the statically-sized array prepare_cs[]. As a bandaid fix which is backportable to stable, raise the number of allowed slaves to 24 (which "ought to be enough for anybody"), enforce the limitation on slave ->setup and revert num_chipselect to 3 (which is the number of native chipselects supported by the controller). An upcoming for-next commit will allow an arbitrary number of slaves.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 571e31fa60b3697d5db26140e16d5c45c51c9815 | affected | git | b5502580cf958b094f3b69dfe4eece90eae01fbc | Unavailable | None listed |
| 571e31fa60b3697d5db26140e16d5c45c51c9815 | affected | git | 82a8ffba54d31e97582051cb56ba1f988018681e | Unavailable | None listed |
| 571e31fa60b3697d5db26140e16d5c45c51c9815 | affected | git | 01415ff85a24308059e06ca3e97fd7bf75648690 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 571e31fa60b3697d5db26140e16d5c45c51c9815 | affected | git | 13817d466eb8713a1ffd254f537402f091d48444 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.4 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 5.4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.4.126 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.10.44 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.12.11 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.12.* | None listed |
| 5.13 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |