CVE-2021-47140

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Desde el commit 08a27c1c3ecf (\"iommu: agrega soporte para cambiar el dominio predeterminado de un grupo iommu\"), un usuario puede cambiar un dispositivo entre IOMMU y DMA directo a trav\u00e9s de sysfs. Esto no funciona para AMD IOMMU en este momento porque dev->dma_ops no se borra al cambiar de un DMA a un dominio IOMMU de identidad. Por lo tanto, la capa DMA intenta utilizar las operaciones dma-iommu en un dominio de identidad, lo que provoca un error: # echo 0000:00:05.0 > /sys/sys/bus/pci/drivers/e1000e/unbind # echo Identity > /sys/ bus/pci/devices/0000:00:05.0/iommu_group/type # echo 0000:00:05.0 > /sys/sys/bus/pci/drivers/e1000e/bind ... ERROR: desreferencia del puntero NULL del kernel, direcci\u00f3n: 0000000000000028 ... Seguimiento de llamadas: iommu_dma_alloc e1000e_setup_tx_resources e1000e_open Dado que iommu_change_dev_def_domain() llama a probe_finalize() nuevamente, borre dma_ops all\u00ed como lo hace Vt-d."}], "id": "CVE-2021-47140", "lastModified": "2026-06-17T04:16:38.103", "metrics": {"cvssMetricV31": [{"cvssData": {"attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackVector": "NETWORK", "availabilityImpact": "LOW", "baseScore": 5.3, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "confidentialityImpact": "NONE", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "privilegesRequired": "NONE", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L", "version": "3.1"}, "exploitabilityScore": 3.9, "impactScore": 1.4, "source": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0", "type": "Secondary"}], "ssvcV203": [{"source": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0", "ssvcData": {"id": "CVE-2021-47140", "options": [{"exploitation": "none"}, {"automatable": "no"}, {"technicalImpact": "partial"}], "role": "CISA Coordinator", "timestamp": "2024-03-28T18:23:40.850053Z", "version": "2.0.3"}}]}, "published": "2024-03-25T09:15:08.740", "references": [{"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6177a6556f853785867e2ec6d5b7f4906f0d809"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3f2cf46291a693eab21adb94171b0128c2a9ec1"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6177a6556f853785867e2ec6d5b7f4906f0d809"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3f2cf46291a693eab21adb94171b0128c2a9ec1"}], "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "vulnStatus": "Analyzed", "weaknesses": [{"description": [{"lang": "en", "value": "CWE-476"}], "source": "nvd@nist.gov", "type": "Primary"}]}

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