CVE-2021-47317

LOW

Linux Kernel 5.12-5.12.18 - Denial of Service via BPF Atomic Instruction Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/bpf: Fix detecting BPF atomic instructions Commit 91c960b0056672 ("bpf: Rename BPF_XADD and prepare to encode other atomics in .imm") converted BPF_XADD to BPF_ATOMIC and added a way to distinguish instructions based on the immediate field. Existing JIT implementations were updated to check for the immediate field and to reject programs utilizing anything more than BPF_ADD (such as BPF_FETCH) in the immediate field. However, the check added to powerpc64 JIT did not look at the correct BPF instruction. Due to this, such programs would be accepted and incorrectly JIT'ed resulting in soft lockups, as seen with the atomic bounds test. Fix this by looking at the correct immediate value.

Scores

CVSS v3 3.3
EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 7.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (9)
Linux/Linux < 5.12
Linux/Linux 5.12
Linux/Linux 5.12.19 - 5.12.*
Linux/Linux 5.13.4 - 5.13.*
Linux/Linux 5.14
Linux/Linux 91c960b0056672e74627776655c926388350fa30 - 0d435b6d94b05dcfd836d758a63145aa566618e2
Linux/Linux 91c960b0056672e74627776655c926388350fa30 - 419ac821766cbdb9fd85872bb3f1a589df05c94c
Linux/Linux 91c960b0056672e74627776655c926388350fa30 - 7284dab07e4d51d453cc42851fae9ec4fac6ef2f
linux/linux_kernel 5.12 - 5.12.19
Published May 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026