CVE-2021-47491

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.4-5.10.78 5.10.78-5.14.16 - Denial of Service via Huge Page Collapse for Special Files

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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]]

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