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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 4, 2024· Updated May 21, 2025

phonet/pep: refuse to enable an unbound pipe

CVE-2021-47086

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

phonet/pep: refuse to enable an unbound pipe

This ioctl() implicitly assumed that the socket was already bound to a valid local socket name, i.e. Phonet object. If the socket was not bound, two separate problems would occur:

1) We'd send an pipe enablement request with an invalid source object. 2) Later socket calls could BUG on the socket unexpectedly being connected yet not bound to a valid object.

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