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High severity Unreviewed Published Mar 4, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 14, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

Input: elantech - fix stack out of bound access in elantech_change_report_id()

The array param[] in elantech_change_report_id() must be at least 3
bytes, because elantech_read_reg_params() is calling ps2_command() with
PSMOUSE_CMD_GETINFO, that is going to access 3 bytes from param[], but
it's defined in the stack as an array of 2 bytes, therefore we have a
potential stack out-of-bounds access here, also confirmed by KASAN:

[ 6.512374] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in __ps2_command+0x372/0x7e0
[ 6.512397] Read of size 1 at addr ffff8881024d77c2 by task kworker/2:1/118

[ 6.512416] CPU: 2 PID: 118 Comm: kworker/2:1 Not tainted 5.13.0-22-generic #22+arighi20211110
[ 6.512428] Hardware name: LENOVO 20T8000QGE/20T8000QGE, BIOS R1AET32W (1.08 ) 08/14/2020
[ 6.512436] Workqueue: events_long serio_handle_event
[ 6.512453] Call Trace:
[ 6.512462] show_stack+0x52/0x58
[ 6.512474] dump_stack+0xa1/0xd3
[ 6.512487] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1d/0x140
[ 6.512502] ? __ps2_command+0x372/0x7e0
[ 6.512516] __kasan_report.cold+0x7d/0x112
[ 6.512527] ? _raw_write_lock_irq+0x20/0xd0
[ 6.512539] ? __ps2_command+0x372/0x7e0
[ 6.512552] kasan_report+0x3c/0x50
[ 6.512564] __asan_load1+0x6a/0x70
[ 6.512575] __ps2_command+0x372/0x7e0
[ 6.512589] ? ps2_drain+0x240/0x240
[ 6.512601] ? dev_printk_emit+0xa2/0xd3
[ 6.512612] ? dev_vprintk_emit+0xc5/0xc5
[ 6.512621] ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20
[ 6.512634] ? mutex_lock+0x8f/0xe0
[ 6.512643] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x20/0x20
[ 6.512655] ps2_command+0x52/0x90
[ 6.512670] elantech_ps2_command+0x4f/0xc0 [psmouse]
[ 6.512734] elantech_change_report_id+0x1e6/0x256 [psmouse]
[ 6.512799] ? elantech_report_trackpoint.constprop.0.cold+0xd/0xd [psmouse]
[ 6.512863] ? ps2_command+0x7f/0x90
[ 6.512877] elantech_query_info.cold+0x6bd/0x9ed [psmouse]
[ 6.512943] ? elantech_setup_ps2+0x460/0x460 [psmouse]
[ 6.513005] ? psmouse_reset+0x69/0xb0 [psmouse]
[ 6.513064] ? psmouse_attr_set_helper+0x2a0/0x2a0 [psmouse]
[ 6.513122] ? phys_pmd_init+0x30e/0x521
[ 6.513137] elantech_init+0x8a/0x200 [psmouse]
[ 6.513200] ? elantech_init_ps2+0xf0/0xf0 [psmouse]
[ 6.513249] ? elantech_query_info+0x440/0x440 [psmouse]
[ 6.513296] ? synaptics_send_cmd+0x60/0x60 [psmouse]
[ 6.513342] ? elantech_query_info+0x440/0x440 [psmouse]
[ 6.513388] ? psmouse_try_protocol+0x11e/0x170 [psmouse]
[ 6.513432] psmouse_extensions+0x65d/0x6e0 [psmouse]
[ 6.513476] ? psmouse_try_protocol+0x170/0x170 [psmouse]
[ 6.513519] ? mutex_unlock+0x22/0x40
[ 6.513526] ? ps2_command+0x7f/0x90
[ 6.513536] ? psmouse_probe+0xa3/0xf0 [psmouse]
[ 6.513580] psmouse_switch_protocol+0x27d/0x2e0 [psmouse]
[ 6.513624] psmouse_connect+0x272/0x530 [psmouse]
[ 6.513669] serio_driver_probe+0x55/0x70
[ 6.513679] really_probe+0x190/0x720
[ 6.513689] driver_probe_device+0x160/0x1f0
[ 6.513697] device_driver_attach+0x119/0x130
[ 6.513705] ? device_driver_attach+0x130/0x130
[ 6.513713] __driver_attach+0xe7/0x1a0
[ 6.513720] ? device_driver_attach+0x130/0x130
[ 6.513728] bus_for_each_dev+0xfb/0x150
[ 6.513738] ? subsys_dev_iter_exit+0x10/0x10
[ 6.513748] ? _raw_write_unlock_bh+0x30/0x30
[ 6.513757] driver_attach+0x2d/0x40
[ 6.513764] serio_handle_event+0x199/0x3d0
[ 6.513775] process_one_work+0x471/0x740
[ 6.513785] worker_thread+0x2d2/0x790
[ 6.513794] ? process_one_work+0x740/0x740
[ 6.513802] kthread+0x1b4/0x1e0
[ 6.513809] ? set_kthread_struct+0x80/0x80
[ 6.513816] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

[ 6.513832] The buggy address belongs to the page:
[ 6.513838] page:00000000bc35e189 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1024d7
[ 6.513847] flags: 0x17ffffc0000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
[ 6.513860] raw: 0
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 4, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 4, 2024
Last updated Feb 14, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(20th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-47097

GHSA ID

GHSA-cv83-m6f4-pc7m

Source code

No known source code

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