CVE-2021-47368

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via Illegal Access in irq_affinity_hint_proc_show

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: enetc: Fix illegal access when reading affinity_hint irq_set_affinity_hit() stores a reference to the cpumask_t parameter in the irq descriptor, and that reference can be accessed later from irq_affinity_hint_proc_show(). Since the cpu_mask parameter passed to irq_set_affinity_hit() has only temporary storage (it's on the stack memory), later accesses to it are illegal. Thus reads from the corresponding procfs affinity_hint file can result in paging request oops. The issue is fixed by the get_cpu_mask() helper, which provides a permanent storage for the cpumask_t parameter.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0094
EPSS Percentile 56.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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-400
Status published
Products (12)
Linux/Linux < 5.1
Linux/Linux 5.1
Linux/Linux 5.10.70 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.14.9 - 5.14.*
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.4.150 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux d4fd0404c1c95b17880f254ebfee3485693fa8ba - 4c4c3052911b577920353a7646e4883d5da40c28
Linux/Linux d4fd0404c1c95b17880f254ebfee3485693fa8ba - 6c3f1b741c6c2914ea120e3a5790d3e900152f7b
Linux/Linux d4fd0404c1c95b17880f254ebfee3485693fa8ba - 6f329d9da2a5ae032fcde800a99b118124ed5270
Linux/Linux d4fd0404c1c95b17880f254ebfee3485693fa8ba - 7237a494decfa17d0b9d0076e6cee3235719de90
... and 2 more
Published May 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026