CVE-2021-47086
kernel: phonet/pep: refuse to enable an unbound pipe
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
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:
- We'd send an pipe enablement request with an invalid source object.
- 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 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation