vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-47461: linux -- security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/22/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
02/19/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

userfaultfd: fix a race between writeprotect and exit_mmap()

A race is possible when a process exits, its VMAs are removed by
exit_mmap() and at the same time userfaultfd_writeprotect() is called.

The race was detected by KASAN on a development kernel, but it appears
to be possible on vanilla kernels as well.

Use mmget_not_zero() to prevent the race as done in other userfaultfd
operations.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
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