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CVE-2021-47086

kernel: phonet/pep: refuse to enable an unbound pipe

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · March 4, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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

phonet/pep: refuse to enable an unbound pipe

This ioctl() implicitly assumed that the socket was already bound to a valid local socket name, i.e. Phonet object. If the socket was not bound, two separate problems would occur:

  1. We'd send an pipe enablement request with an invalid source object.
  2. Later socket calls could BUG on the socket unexpectedly being connected yet not bound to a valid object.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation