CVE-2021-46988

2024-02-2809:15:37

Linux

web.nvd.nist.gov

cve

linux kernel

vulnerability

userfaultfd

security

nvd

AI Score

6.2

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.3%

JSON

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
shmem_mfill_atomic_pte(). We successfully account the blocks, we
shmem_alloc_page(), but then the copy_from_user() fails. We return
-ENOENT. We don’t release the page we allocated.
Our caller detects this error code, tries the copy_from_user() after
dropping the mmap_lock, and retries, calling back into
shmem_mfill_atomic_pte().
Meanwhile, let’s say another process filled up the tmpfs being used.
So shmem_mfill_atomic_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.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange4.11–4.14.233

linuxlinux_kernelRange4.15.0–4.19.191

linuxlinux_kernelRange4.20.0–5.4.120

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.5.0–5.10.38

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.11.0–5.11.22

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.12.0–5.12.5

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.13.0≥

VendorProductVersionCPE
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

CNA Affected

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      "mm/shmem.c"
    ],
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      }
    ]
  }
]