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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47497" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-22T08:19:44.144Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:55:47.564Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47497" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47497.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47497" title: "nvmem: Fix shift-out-of-bound (UBSAN) with byte size cells" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvmem: Fix shift-out-of-bound (UBSAN) with byte size cells\n\nIf a cell has 'nbits' equal to a multiple of BITS_PER_BYTE the logic\n\n *p &= GENMASK((cell-\u003enbits%BITS_PER_BYTE) - 1, 0);\n\nwill become undefined behavior because nbits modulo BITS_PER_BYTE is 0, and we\nsubtract one from that making a large number that is then shifted more than the\nnumber of bits that fit into an unsigned long.\n\nUBSAN reports this problem:\n\n UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/nvmem/core.c:1386:8\n shift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'unsigned long'\n CPU: 6 PID: 7 Comm: kworker/u16:0 Not tainted 5.15.0-rc3+ #9\n Hardware name: Google Lazor (rev3+) with KB Backlight (DT)\n Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func\n Call trace:\n dump_backtrace+0x0/0x170\n show_stack+0x24/0x30\n dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x7c\n dump_stack+0x18/0x38\n ubsan_epilogue+0x10/0x54\n __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x180/0x194\n __nvmem_cell_read+0x1ec/0x21c\n nvmem_cell_read+0x58/0x94\n nvmem_cell_read_variable_common+0x4c/0xb0\n nvmem_cell_read_variable_le_u32+0x40/0x100\n a6xx_gpu_init+0x170/0x2f4\n adreno_bind+0x174/0x284\n component_bind_all+0xf0/0x264\n msm_drm_bind+0x1d8/0x7a0\n try_to_bring_up_master+0x164/0x1ac\n __component_add+0xbc/0x13c\n component_add+0x20/0x2c\n dp_display_probe+0x340/0x384\n platform_probe+0xc0/0x100\n really_probe+0x110/0x304\n __driver_probe_device+0xb8/0x120\n driver_probe_device+0x4c/0xfc\n __device_attach_driver+0xb0/0x128\n bus_for_each_drv+0x90/0xdc\n __device_attach+0xc8/0x174\n device_initial_probe+0x20/0x2c\n bus_probe_device+0x40/0xa4\n deferred_probe_work_func+0x7c/0xb8\n process_one_work+0x128/0x21c\n process_scheduled_works+0x40/0x54\n worker_thread+0x1ec/0x2a8\n kthread+0x138/0x158\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n\nFix it by making sure there are any bits to mask out." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"69aba7948cbe53f2f1827e84e9dd0ae470a5072e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"abcb8d33e4d2215ccde5ab5ccf9f730a59d79d97"},{"version":"69aba7948cbe53f2f1827e84e9dd0ae470a5072e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"60df06bbdf497e37ed25ad40572c362e5b0998df"},{"version":"69aba7948cbe53f2f1827e84e9dd0ae470a5072e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2df6c023050205c4d04ffc121bc549f65cb8d1df"},{"version":"69aba7948cbe53f2f1827e84e9dd0ae470a5072e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eb0fc8e7170e61eaf65d28dee4a8baf4e86b19ca"},{"version":"69aba7948cbe53f2f1827e84e9dd0ae470a5072e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0594f1d048d8dc338eb9a240021b1d00ae1eb082"},{"version":"69aba7948cbe53f2f1827e84e9dd0ae470a5072e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"57e48886401b14cd351423fabfec2cfd18df4f66"},{"version":"69aba7948cbe53f2f1827e84e9dd0ae470a5072e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e822e5413da1af28cca350cb1cb42b6133bdcae"},{"version":"69aba7948cbe53f2f1827e84e9dd0ae470a5072e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d388fa01fa6eb310ac023a363a6cb216d9d8fe9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.3"},{"version":"4.4.290","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.4.*"},{"version":"4.9.288","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.252","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.213","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.155","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.14.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.14.*"},{"version":"5.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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