CVE-2021-47569

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.15-5.15.5 - Denial of Service via io_uring Cancellation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: fail cancellation for EXITING tasks WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 20 at fs/io_uring.c:6269 io_try_cancel_userdata+0x3c5/0x640 fs/io_uring.c:6269 CPU: 1 PID: 20 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1-syzkaller #0 Workqueue: events io_fallback_req_func RIP: 0010:io_try_cancel_userdata+0x3c5/0x640 fs/io_uring.c:6269 Call Trace: <TASK> io_req_task_link_timeout+0x6b/0x1e0 fs/io_uring.c:6886 io_fallback_req_func+0xf9/0x1ae fs/io_uring.c:1334 process_one_work+0x9b2/0x1690 kernel/workqueue.c:2298 worker_thread+0x658/0x11f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2445 kthread+0x405/0x4f0 kernel/kthread.c:327 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295 </TASK> We need original task's context to do cancellations, so if it's dying and the callback is executed in a fallback mode, fail the cancellation attempt.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.8%
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 (8)
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15.6 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16
Linux/Linux 89b263f6d56e683ddcf7643140271ef6e36c72b9 - 3d2a1e68fd9904fdc1b02f2e7d40ca47df7ba39f
Linux/Linux 89b263f6d56e683ddcf7643140271ef6e36c72b9 - 617a89484debcd4e7999796d693cf0b77d2519de
linux/linux_kernel 5.16 rc1 (2 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.15 - 5.15.6
Published May 24, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026