CVE-2021-38205

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    CVE-2021-38205

    Published: 8 Aug 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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).

    References: 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

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