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CVE-2021-47477

kernel: comedi: dt9812: fix DMA buffers on stack

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 3.1

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Published · May 22, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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

comedi: dt9812: fix DMA buffers on stack

USB transfer buffers are typically mapped for DMA and must not be allocated on the stack or transfers will fail.

Allocate proper transfer buffers in the various command helpers and return an error on short transfers instead of acting on random stack data.

Note that this also fixes a stack info leak on systems where DMA is not used as 32 bytes are always sent to the device regardless of how short the command is.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

CWE-402 · Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')