vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2021-47577): linux-fips vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:C)
Published
Jun 19, 2024
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Oct 1, 2025

Description

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

io-wq: check for wq exit after adding new worker task_work

We check IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT before attempting to create a new worker, and
wq exit cancels pending work if we have any. But it's possible to have
a race between the two, where creation checks exit finding it not set,
but we're in the process of exiting. The exit side will cancel pending
creation task_work, but there's a gap where we add task_work after we've
canceled existing creations at exit time.

Fix this by checking the EXIT bit post adding the creation task_work.
If it's set, run the same cancelation that exit does.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
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