CVE-2021-46993
HIGHLinux Kernel - Out-of-bounds Read in uclamp Bucket Index Calculation
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: Fix out-of-bound access in uclamp Util-clamp places tasks in different buckets based on their clamp values for performance reasons. However, the size of buckets is currently computed using a rounding division, which can lead to an off-by-one error in some configurations. For instance, with 20 buckets, the bucket size will be 1024/20=51. A task with a clamp of 1024 will be mapped to bucket id 1024/51=20. Sadly, correct indexes are in range [0,19], hence leading to an out of bound memory access. Clamp the bucket id to fix the issue.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
7.1
EPSS
0.0024
EPSS Percentile
15.1%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (13)
Linux/Linux
< 5.3
Linux/Linux
5.10.38 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux
5.11.22 - 5.11.*
Linux/Linux
5.12.5 - 5.12.*
Linux/Linux
5.13
Linux/Linux
5.3
Linux/Linux
5.4.120 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux
69842cba9ace84849bb9b8edcdf2cefccd97901c - 3da3f804b82a0a382d523a21acf4cf3bb35f936d
Linux/Linux
69842cba9ace84849bb9b8edcdf2cefccd97901c - 42ee47c7e3569d9a0e2cb5053c496d97d380472f
Linux/Linux
69842cba9ace84849bb9b8edcdf2cefccd97901c - 687f523c134b7f0bd040ee1230f6d17990d54172
... and 3 more
Published
Feb 28, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026