{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2024-05-21T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: udf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in udf_symlink function",
    "id" : "2282400",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282400"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-476",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nudf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in udf_symlink function\nIn function udf_symlink, epos.bh is assigned with the value returned\nby udf_tgetblk. The function udf_tgetblk is defined in udf/misc.c\nand returns the value of sb_getblk function that could be NULL.\nThen, epos.bh is used without any check, causing a possible\nNULL pointer dereference when sb_getblk fails.\nThis fix adds a check to validate the value of epos.bh.", "A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's UDF file system driver, where the udf_symlink function can dereference a NULL pointer. This occurs because the function uses a value returned from udf_tgetblk without checking if it is NULL, potentially causing system crashes if sb_getblk fails." ],
  "statement" : "This vulnerability is rated as a moderate severity because it can lead to system crashes due to a NULL pointer dereference, but it requires specific conditions related to file system operations.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-07-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:4352",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.8.1.rt7.349.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-07-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:4211",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-553.8.1.el8_10"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47353\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47353\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024052141-CVE-2021-47353-8d3a@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2021-47353",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}