CVE-2021-47383 (GCVE-0-2021-47383)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-21 15:03 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:47
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
tty: Fix out-of-bound vmalloc access in imageblit
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: Fix out-of-bound vmalloc access in imageblit
This issue happens when a userspace program does an ioctl
FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO passing the fb_var_screeninfo struct
containing only the fields xres, yres, and bits_per_pixel
with values.
If this struct is the same as the previous ioctl, the
vc_resize() detects it and doesn't call the resize_screen(),
leaving the fb_var_screeninfo incomplete. And this leads to
the updatescrollmode() calculates a wrong value to
fbcon_display->vrows, which makes the real_y() return a
wrong value of y, and that value, eventually, causes
the imageblit to access an out-of-bound address value.
To solve this issue I made the resize_screen() be called
even if the screen does not need any resizing, so it will
"fix and fill" the fb_var_screeninfo independently.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-17 17:37 UTC
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
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(git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 70aed03b1d5a5df974f456cdc8eedb213c94bb8b (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 067c694d06040db6f0c65281bb358452ca6d85b9 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 8a6a240f52e14356386030d8958ae8b1761d2325 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 883f7897a25e3ce14a7f274ca4c73f49ac84002a (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < d570c48dd37dbe8fc6875d4461d01a9554ae2560 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 699d926585daa6ec44be556cdc1ab89e5d54557b (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 3b0c406124719b625b1aba431659f5cdc24a982c (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver) Unaffected: 4.4.286 , ≤ 4.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.9.285 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.249 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.209 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.151 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.71 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.14.10 , ≤ 5.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
How durations are calculated
Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.
Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.