CVE-2021-47214

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.14-5.15.4 - Use-After-Free in Hugetlb Userfaultfd Reservation Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hugetlb, userfaultfd: fix reservation restore on userfaultfd error Currently in the is_continue case in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte(), if we bail out using "goto out_release_unlock;" in the cases where idx >= size, or !huge_pte_none(), the code will detect that new_pagecache_page == false, and so call restore_reserve_on_error(). In this case I see restore_reserve_on_error() delete the reservation, and the following call to remove_inode_hugepages() will increment h->resv_hugepages causing a 100% reproducible leak. We should treat the is_continue case similar to adding a page into the pagecache and set new_pagecache_page to true, to indicate that there is no reservation to restore on the error path, and we need not call restore_reserve_on_error(). Rename new_pagecache_page to page_in_pagecache to make that clear.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 9.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (11)
Linux/Linux < 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.13.13 - 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.15.5 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16
Linux/Linux 515b6124df6a84c957c5cc6bb6e8309dae7b1e9c
Linux/Linux c7b1850dfb41d0b4154aca8dbc04777fbd75616f - b5069d44e2fbc4a9093d005b3ef0949add3dd27e
Linux/Linux c7b1850dfb41d0b4154aca8dbc04777fbd75616f - cc30042df6fcc82ea18acf0dace831503e60a0b7
linux/linux_kernel 5.13.13
linux/linux_kernel 5.16 rc1
... and 1 more
Published Apr 10, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026