Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 29, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025
mtd: require write permissions for locking and badblock ioctls
CVE-2021-47055
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mtd: require write permissions for locking and badblock ioctls
MEMLOCK, MEMUNLOCK and OTPLOCK modify protection bits. Thus require write permission. Depending on the hardware MEMLOCK might even be write-once, e.g. for SPI-NOR flashes with their WP# tied to GND. OTPLOCK is always write-once.
MEMSETBADBLOCK modifies the bad block table.
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Affected products
128- osv-coords126 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Vulnerability mechanics
References
9- git.kernel.org/stable/c/077259f5e777c3c8821f6b41dee709fcda27306bmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e97743fd180981bef5f01402342bb54bf1c6366mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5880afefe0cb9b2d5e801816acd58bfe91a96981mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/75ed985bd6c8ac1d4e673e93ea9d96c9908c1d37mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b6552719c0ccbbea29dde4be141da54fdb5877emitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9625b00cac6630479c0ff4b9fafa88bee636e1f0mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a08799d3e8c8088640956237c183f83463c39668mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4d28d8b9b0e7c4ae04214b8d7e0b0466ec6bcafmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f73b29819c6314c0ba8b7d5892dfb03487424beemitre
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