CVE-2021-47098 (GCVE-0-2021-47098)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-04 18:10 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:48
VLAI
Title
hwmon: (lm90) Prevent integer overflow/underflow in hysteresis calculations
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (lm90) Prevent integer overflow/underflow in hysteresis calculations Commit b50aa49638c7 ("hwmon: (lm90) Prevent integer underflows of temperature calculations") addressed a number of underflow situations when writing temperature limits. However, it missed one situation, seen when an attempt is made to set the hysteresis value to MAX_LONG and the critical temperature limit is negative. Use clamp_val() when setting the hysteresis temperature to ensure that the provided value can never overflow or underflow.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 15:56 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: b50aa49638c7e12abf4ecc483f4e928c5cccc1b0 , < d105f30bea9104c590a9e5b495cb8a49bdfe405f (git)
Affected: b50aa49638c7e12abf4ecc483f4e928c5cccc1b0 , < 55840b9eae5367b5d5b29619dc2fb7e4596dba46 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.12 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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  • 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.
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