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CVE-2021-47605

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CVE-2021-47605

Published: Jun 19, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
c8a6153b6c59d95c0e091f053f6f180952ade91e - < e6c67560b4341914bec32ec536e931c22062af65
affected
c8a6153b6c59d95c0e091f053f6f180952ade91e - < ff9f9c6e74848170fcb45c8403c80d661484c8c9

Linux

Linux

affected
5.15
unaffected
0 - < 5.15
unaffected
5.15.11 - <= 5.15.*
unaffected
5.16 - <= *

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