CVE-2021-47491
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47491
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-47491.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-47491
- Related
- Published
- 2024-05-22T09:15:10Z
- Modified
- 2024-09-11T04:41:12.416848Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files
The read-only THP for filesystems will collapse THP for files opened readonly and mapped with VM_EXEC. The intended usecase is to avoid TLB misses for large text segments. But it doesn't restrict the file types so a THP could be collapsed for a non-regular file, for example, block device, if it is opened readonly and mapped with EXEC permission. This may cause bugs, like [1] and [2].
This is definitely not the intended usecase, so just collapse THP for regular files in order to close the attack surface.
[shy828301@gmail.com: fix vm_file check [3]]
- References
Affected packages
Debian:11 / linux
Package
- Name
- linux
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source
Debian:12 / linux
Package
- Name
- linux
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source
Debian:13 / linux
Package
- Name
- linux
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source