CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47221
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-05-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-763
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/slub: actually fix freelist pointer vs redzoning
It turns out that SLUB redzoning ("slub_debug=Z") checks from
s->object_size rather than from s->inuse (which is normally bumped to
make room for the freelist pointer), so a cache created with an object
size less than 24 would have the freelist pointer written beyond
s->object_size, causing the redzone to be corrupted by the freelist
pointer. This was very visible with "slub_debug=ZF":
BUG test (Tainted: G B ): Right Redzone overwritten
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
INFO: 0xffff957ead1c05de-0xffff957ead1c05df @offset=1502. First byte 0x1a instead of 0xbb
INFO: Slab 0xffffef3950b47000 objects=170 used=170 fp=0x0000000000000000 flags=0x8000000000000200
INFO: Object 0xffff957ead1c05d8 @offset=1496 fp=0xffff957ead1c0620
Redzone (____ptrval____): bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ........
Object (____ptrval____): 00 00 00 00 00 f6 f4 a5 ........
Redzone (____ptrval____): 40 1d e8 1a aa @....
Padding (____ptrval____): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
Adjust the offset to stay within s->object_size.
(Note that no caches of in this size range are known to exist in the
kernel currently.)
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.7 < 5.10.46)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.12.13)
• linux linux kernel 5.13
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-763 Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce6e8bee7a3883e8008b30f5887dbb426aac6a35 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e41a49fadbc80b60b48d3c095d9e2ee7ef7c9a8e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6ed2357541612a13a5841b3af4dc32ed984a25f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce6e8bee7a3883e8008b30f5887dbb426aac6a35 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e41a49fadbc80b60b48d3c095d9e2ee7ef7c9a8e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6ed2357541612a13a5841b3af4dc32ed984a25f Patch