High severity7.1NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-46965
CVE-2021-46965
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mtd: physmap: physmap-bt1-rom: Fix unintentional stack access
Cast &data to (char *) in order to avoid unintentionally accessing the stack.
Notice that data is of type u32, so any increment to &data will be in the order of 4-byte chunks, and this piece of code is actually intended to be a byte offset.
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1497765 ("Out-of-bounds access")
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