vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2021-47368): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
9 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C) | May 21, 2024 | Nov 19, 2024 | Jun 26, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
enetc: Fix illegal access when reading affinity_hint
irq_set_affinity_hit() stores a reference to the cpumask_t
parameter in the irq descriptor, and that reference can be
accessed later from irq_affinity_hint_proc_show(). Since
the cpu_mask parameter passed to irq_set_affinity_hit() has
only temporary storage (it's on the stack memory), later
accesses to it are illegal. Thus reads from the corresponding
procfs affinity_hint file can result in paging request oops.
The issue is fixed by the get_cpu_mask() helper, which provides
a permanent storage for the cpumask_t parameter.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2021-47368
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-47368
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/7237a494decfa17d0b9d0076e6cee3235719de90
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c4c3052911b577920353a7646e4883d5da40c28
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c3f1b741c6c2914ea120e3a5790d3e900152f7b
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f329d9da2a5ae032fcde800a99b118124ed5270
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7237a494decfa17d0b9d0076e6cee3235719de90
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47368

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