vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2021-47221): linux-fips vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 21, 2024 | Jun 26, 2025 | Aug 18, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/slub: actually fix freelist pointer vs redzoning
It turns out that SLUB redzoning ("slub_debug=Z") checks from
s->object_size rather than from s->inuse (which is normally bumped to
make room for the freelist pointer), so a cache created with an object
size less than 24 would have the freelist pointer written beyond
s->object_size, causing the redzone to be corrupted by the freelist
pointer. This was very visible with "slub_debug=ZF":
BUG test (Tainted: G B ): Right Redzone overwritten
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
INFO: 0xffff957ead1c05de-0xffff957ead1c05df @offset=1502. First byte 0x1a instead of 0xbb
INFO: Slab 0xffffef3950b47000 objects=170 used=170 fp=0x0000000000000000 flags=0x8000000000000200
INFO: Object 0xffff957ead1c05d8 @offset=1496 fp=0xffff957ead1c0620
Redzone (____ptrval____): bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ........
Object (____ptrval____): 00 00 00 00 00 f6 f4 a5 ........
Redzone (____ptrval____): 40 1d e8 1a aa @....
Padding (____ptrval____): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
Adjust the offset to stay within s->object_size.
(Note that no caches of in this size range are known to exist in the
kernel currently.)
Solution
References
- CVE-2021-47221
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-47221
- CWE-763
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/e41a49fadbc80b60b48d3c095d9e2ee7ef7c9a8e
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce6e8bee7a3883e8008b30f5887dbb426aac6a35
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e41a49fadbc80b60b48d3c095d9e2ee7ef7c9a8e
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6ed2357541612a13a5841b3af4dc32ed984a25f
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47221
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