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CVE-2021-47282

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2021
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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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
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
571e31fa60b3697d5db26140e16d5c45c51c9815affectedgitb5502580cf958b094f3b69dfe4eece90eae01fbcUnavailableNone listed
571e31fa60b3697d5db26140e16d5c45c51c9815affectedgit82a8ffba54d31e97582051cb56ba1f988018681eUnavailableNone listed
571e31fa60b3697d5db26140e16d5c45c51c9815affectedgit01415ff85a24308059e06ca3e97fd7bf75648690UnavailableNone listed
571e31fa60b3697d5db26140e16d5c45c51c9815affectedgit13817d466eb8713a1ffd254f537402f091d48444UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
5.4affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver5.4UnavailableNone listed
5.4.126unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.4.*None listed
5.10.44unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.12.11unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.12.*None listed
5.13unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed