CVE-2021-46965: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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")

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.10, before 5.10.36 (fixed in 5.10.36); from 5.11, before 5.11.20 (fixed in 5.11.20); from 5.12, before 5.12.3 (fixed in 5.12.3)

Published 2024-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.