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CVE-2021-25491: Kernel NULL Pointer Dereferences due to Missing Error Checks

There are a series of memory corruption vulnerabilities in Samsung Exynos kernels, due to improper error checks, after dma_buf_vmap calls. These bugs can be abused by various privileged processes to cause NULL pointer accesses and crash the kernel. Vulnerability Details The kernel uses the dma_buf_vmap function if it needs to map a dma buffer into the kernel address space to access its content. Th

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Source category
Research & news
Report title
CVE-2021-25491: Kernel NULL Pointer Dereferences due to Missing Error Checks
First reported
Dec 13, 2021 00:00 UTC
Last reported
Dec 13, 2021 00:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:51 UTC
Record ID
a3e004e3a2bedbaefa2569f6ab42160c81875ef9e1cc97d2657eb5a0047a90b8

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Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Dec 13, 2021 00:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:51 UTC

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