Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 18, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-40506
CVE-2021-40506
Description
An issue was discovered in the ALU unit of the OR1200 (aka OpenRISC 1200) processor 2011-09-10 through 2015-11-11. The overflow flag is not being updated for the msb and mac instructions, which results in an incorrect value in the overflow flag. Any software that relies on this flag may experience corruption in execution.
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Affected products
2- OpenRISC/OpenRISC 1200description
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References
2- github.com/openrisc/or1200/commit/2c0765d7ba12813df273cd693a99c4e744f0fbd5nvdPatch
- seth.engr.tamu.edu/software-releases/thehuzz/nvdThird Party Advisory
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