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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-47506): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | May 24, 2024 | Nov 19, 2024 | May 14, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: fix use-after-free due to delegation race
A delegation break could arrive as soon as we've called vfs_setlease. A
delegation break runs a callback which immediately (in
nfsd4_cb_recall_prepare) adds the delegation to del_recall_lru. If we
then exit nfs4_set_delegation without hashing the delegation, it will be
freed as soon as the callback is done with it, without ever being
removed from del_recall_lru.
Symptoms show up later as use-after-free or list corruption warnings,
usually in the laundromat thread.
I suspect aba2072f4523 "nfsd: grant read delegations to clients holding
writes" made this bug easier to hit, but I looked as far back as v3.0
and it looks to me it already had the same problem. So I'm not sure
where the bug was introduced; it may have been there from the beginning.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2021-47506
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-47506
- UBUNTU-USN-7506-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7506-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7506-3
- UBUNTU-USN-7506-4
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/548ec0805c399c65ed66c6641be467f717833ab5
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04a8d07f3d58308b92630045560799a3faa3ebce
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/148c816f10fd11df27ca6a9b3238cdd42fa72cd3
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2becaa990b93cbd2928292c0b669d3abb6cf06d4
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33645d3e22720cac1e4548f8fef57bf0649536ee
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/348714018139c39533c55661a0c7c990671396b4
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/548ec0805c399c65ed66c6641be467f717833ab5
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0759696de6851d7536efddfdd2dfed4c4df1f09
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eeb0711801f5e19ef654371b627682aed3b11373
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47506

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