CVE-2021-46966 (GCVE-0-2021-46966)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-27 18:47 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:18
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
ACPI: custom_method: fix potential use-after-free issue
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: custom_method: fix potential use-after-free issue
In cm_write(), buf is always freed when reaching the end of the
function. If the requested count is less than table.length, the
allocated buffer will be freed but subsequent calls to cm_write() will
still try to access it.
Remove the unconditional kfree(buf) at the end of the function and
set the buf to NULL in the -EINVAL error path to match the rest of
function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-28 17:00 UTC
Assigner
References
9 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4bda2b79a9d04c8ba31681c66e95877dbb433416 , < 1d53ca5d131074c925ce38361fb0376d3bf7e394
(git)
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guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.4 (semver) Unaffected: 4.4.269 , ≤ 4.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.9.269 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.233 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.191 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.118 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.36 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.11.20 , ≤ 5.11.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.12.3 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline
Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.