CVE-2021-47067 soc/tegra: regulators: Fix locking up when voltage-spread is out of range

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A locking bug in the Tegra regulator driver causes a system lockup when voltage spread is out of range, requiring specific device-tree configurations to trigger.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
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Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2021-47067?

CVE-2021-47067 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 29 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

soc/tegra: regulators: Fix locking up when voltage-spread is out of range

Fix voltage coupler lockup which happens when voltage-spread is out of range due to a bug in the code. The max-spread requirement shall be accounted when CPU regulator doesn't have consumers. This problem is observed on Tegra30 Ouya game console once system-wide DVFS is enabled in a device-tree.

Weakness: CWE-667

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-47067?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2021-47067?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2021-47067 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47067 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47067, GHSA-vw3g-79h8-v7f8, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47067.

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