{ "data_version": "4.0", "data_type": "CVE", "data_format": "MITRE", "CVE_data_meta": { "ID": "CVE-2021-47566", "ASSIGNER": "cve@kernel.org", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nproc/vmcore: fix clearing user buffer by properly using clear_user()\n\nTo clear a user buffer we cannot simply use memset, we have to use\nclear_user(). With a virtio-mem device that registers a vmcore_cb and\nhas some logically unplugged memory inside an added Linux memory block,\nI can easily trigger a BUG by copying the vmcore via \"cp\":\n\n systemd[1]: Starting Kdump Vmcore Save Service...\n kdump[420]: Kdump is using the default log level(3).\n kdump[453]: saving to /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2021-11-11-14:59:22/\n kdump[458]: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt to /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2021-11-11-14:59:22/\n kdump[465]: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt complete\n kdump[467]: saving vmcore\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00007f2374e01000\n #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation\n PGD 7a523067 P4D 7a523067 PUD 7a528067 PMD 7a525067 PTE 800000007048f867\n Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 0 PID: 468 Comm: cp Not tainted 5.15.0+ #6\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.14.0-27-g64f37cc530f1-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:read_from_oldmem.part.0.cold+0x1d/0x86\n Code: ff ff ff e8 05 ff fe ff e9 b9 e9 7f ff 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 38 3b 60 82 e8 f1 fe fe ff 83 fd 08 72 3c 49 8d 7d 08 4c 89 e9 89 e8 <49> c7 45 00 00 00 00 00 49 c7 44 05 f8 00 00 00 00 48 83 e7 f81\n RSP: 0018:ffffc9000073be08 EFLAGS: 00010212\n RAX: 0000000000001000 RBX: 00000000002fd000 RCX: 00007f2374e01000\n RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00000000ffffdfff RDI: 00007f2374e01008\n RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc9000073bc50\n R10: ffffc9000073bc48 R11: ffffffff829461a8 R12: 000000000000f000\n R13: 00007f2374e01000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88807bd421e8\n FS: 00007f2374e12140(0000) GS:ffff88807f000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 00007f2374e01000 CR3: 000000007a4aa000 CR4: 0000000000350eb0\n Call Trace:\n read_vmcore+0x236/0x2c0\n proc_reg_read+0x55/0xa0\n vfs_read+0x95/0x190\n ksys_read+0x4f/0xc0\n do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\nSome x86-64 CPUs have a CPU feature called \"Supervisor Mode Access\nPrevention (SMAP)\", which is used to detect wrong access from the kernel\nto user buffers like this: SMAP triggers a permissions violation on\nwrong access. In the x86-64 variant of clear_user(), SMAP is properly\nhandled via clac()+stac().\n\nTo fix, properly use clear_user() when we're dealing with a user buffer." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "vendor_name": "Linux", "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "Linux", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_affected": "<", "version_name": "997c136f518c", "version_value": "a9e164bd160b" }, { "version_value": "not down converted", "x_cve_json_5_version_data": { "versions": [ { "version": "3.0", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "3.0", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "custom" }, { "version": "4.4.294", "lessThanOrEqual": "4.4.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "custom" }, { "version": "4.9.292", "lessThanOrEqual": "4.9.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "custom" }, { "version": "4.14.257", "lessThanOrEqual": "4.14.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "custom" }, { "version": "4.19.219", "lessThanOrEqual": "4.19.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "custom" }, { "version": "5.4.163", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.4.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "custom" }, { "version": "5.10.83", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "custom" }, { "version": "5.15.6", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "custom" }, { "version": "5.16", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ], "defaultStatus": "affected" } } ] } } ] } } ] } }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9e164bd160be8cbee1df70acb379129e3cd2e7c", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9e164bd160be8cbee1df70acb379129e3cd2e7c" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33a7d698f30fa0b99d50569e9909d3baa65d8f6a", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33a7d698f30fa0b99d50569e9909d3baa65d8f6a" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99d348b82bcb36171f24411d3f1a15706a2a937a", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99d348b82bcb36171f24411d3f1a15706a2a937a" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ef384ed300d1bcfb23d0ab0b487d544444d4b52", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ef384ed300d1bcfb23d0ab0b487d544444d4b52" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd7974c547abfb03072a4ee706d3a6f182266f89", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd7974c547abfb03072a4ee706d3a6f182266f89" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8a917058faf4abaec9fb614bb6d5f8fe3529ec6", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8a917058faf4abaec9fb614bb6d5f8fe3529ec6" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b3a34f08d11e7f05cd00b8e09adaa15192f0ad1", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b3a34f08d11e7f05cd00b8e09adaa15192f0ad1" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1e63117711977cc4295b2ce73de29dd17066c82", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1e63117711977cc4295b2ce73de29dd17066c82" } ] }, "generator": { "engine": "bippy-a5840b7849dd" } }