CVE-2021-47491
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 5.4-5.10.78 5.10.78-5.14.16 - Denial of Service via Huge Page Collapse for Special Files
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files The read-only THP for filesystems will collapse THP for files opened readonly and mapped with VM_EXEC. The intended usecase is to avoid TLB misses for large text segments. But it doesn't restrict the file types so a THP could be collapsed for a non-regular file, for example, block device, if it is opened readonly and mapped with EXEC permission. This may cause bugs, like [1] and [2]. This is definitely not the intended usecase, so just collapse THP for regular files in order to close the attack surface. [shy828301@gmail.com: fix vm_file check [3]]
References (3)
Core 3
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0021
EPSS Percentile
11.2%
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
Status
published
Products (10)
Linux/Linux
< 5.4
Linux/Linux
5.10.78 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux
5.14.16 - 5.14.*
Linux/Linux
5.15
Linux/Linux
5.4
Linux/Linux
99cb0dbd47a15d395bf3faa78dc122bc5efe3fc0 - 5fcb6fce74ffa614d964667110cf1a516c48c6d9
Linux/Linux
99cb0dbd47a15d395bf3faa78dc122bc5efe3fc0 - 6d67b2a73b8e3a079c355bab3c1aef7d85a044b8
Linux/Linux
99cb0dbd47a15d395bf3faa78dc122bc5efe3fc0 - a4aeaa06d45e90f9b279f0b09de84bd00006e733
linux/linux_kernel
5.15 rc1 (7 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel
5.4 - 5.10.78
Published
May 22, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026