CVE-2021-46988

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Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46988

Import Source

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-46988

Related

Published

2024-02-28T09:15:37Z

Modified

2024-09-18T01:00:22Z

Summary

[none]

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

userfaultfd: release page in error path to avoid BUG_ON

Consider the following sequence of events:

Userspace issues a UFFD ioctl, which ends up calling into shmemmfillatomicpte(). We successfully account the blocks, we shmemallocpage(), but then the copyfrom_user() fails. We return -ENOENT. We don't release the page we allocated.
Our caller detects this error code, tries the copyfromuser() after dropping the mmaplock, and retries, calling back into shmemmfillatomicpte().
Meanwhile, let's say another process filled up the tmpfs being used.
So shmemmfillatomic_pte() fails to account blocks this time, and immediately returns - without releasing the page.

This triggers a BUG_ON in our caller, which asserts that the page should always be consumed, unless -ENOENT is returned.

To fix this, detect if we have such a "dangling" page when accounting fails, and if so, release it before returning.

References

Affected packages

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.10.38-1

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.10.38-1

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.10.38-1

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}