CVE-2021-47605 (GCVE-0-2021-47605)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-19 14:54 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:48
VLAI
Title
vduse: fix memory corruption in vduse_dev_ioctl()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vduse: fix memory corruption in vduse_dev_ioctl() The "config.offset" comes from the user. There needs to a check to prevent it being out of bounds. The "config.offset" and "dev->config_size" variables are both type u32. So if the offset if out of bounds then the "dev->config_size - config.offset" subtraction results in a very high u32 value. The out of bounds offset can result in memory corruption.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 17:12 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c8a6153b6c59d95c0e091f053f6f180952ade91e , < e6c67560b4341914bec32ec536e931c22062af65 (git)
Affected: c8a6153b6c59d95c0e091f053f6f180952ade91e , < ff9f9c6e74848170fcb45c8403c80d661484c8c9 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.11 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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