CVE-2021-47461 Affecting kernel-headers package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ROCKY8-KERNELHEADERS-7782019
- published 22 Aug 2024
- disclosed 22 May 2024
Introduced: 22 May 2024
CVE-2021-47461 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 kernel-headers to version 0:4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:5101.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by Rocky-Linux.
See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
userfaultfd: fix a race between writeprotect and exit_mmap()
A race is possible when a process exits, its VMAs are removed by exit_mmap() and at the same time userfaultfd_writeprotect() is called.
The race was detected by KASAN on a development kernel, but it appears to be possible on vanilla kernels as well.
Use mmget_not_zero() to prevent the race as done in other userfaultfd operations.