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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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Affected products

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  • Linux/Kernelcpe-rescue3 versions
    5.10+ 2 more
    • (no CPE)range: 5.10
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=5.10,<5.10.36
    • (no CPE)

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