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CVE-2021-38205

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-08-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-824

Description

drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.3 makes it easier for attackers to defeat an ASLR protection mechanism because it prints a kernel pointer (i.e., the real IOMEM pointer).

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Linux kernel: before 5.13.3 — fixed in 5.13.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.13.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.13.3
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0d62baa7f505bd4c59cd169692ff07ec49dde37
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00010.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00012.html
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.13.3
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0d62baa7f505bd4c59cd169692ff07ec49dde37
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00010.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00012.html

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