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FKIE_CVE-2021-47506

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-24 15:15 - Updated: 2026-08-04 10:17

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: fix use-after-free due to delegation race A delegation break could arrive as soon as we've called vfs_setlease. A delegation break runs a callback which immediately (in nfsd4_cb_recall_prepare) adds the delegation to del_recall_lru. If we then exit nfs4_set_delegation without hashing the delegation, it will be freed as soon as the callback is done with it, without ever being removed from del_recall_lru. Symptoms show up later as use-after-free or list corruption warnings, usually in the laundromat thread. I suspect aba2072f4523 "nfsd: grant read delegations to clients holding writes" made this bug easier to hit, but I looked as far back as v3.0 and it looks to me it already had the same problem. So I'm not sure where the bug was introduced; it may have been there from the beginning.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04a8d07f3d58308b92630045560799a3faa3ebce	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/148c816f10fd11df27ca6a9b3238cdd42fa72cd3	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2becaa990b93cbd2928292c0b669d3abb6cf06d4	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33645d3e22720cac1e4548f8fef57bf0649536ee	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/348714018139c39533c55661a0c7c990671396b4	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/548ec0805c399c65ed66c6641be467f717833ab5	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0759696de6851d7536efddfdd2dfed4c4df1f09	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eeb0711801f5e19ef654371b627682aed3b11373	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04a8d07f3d58308b92630045560799a3faa3ebce	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/148c816f10fd11df27ca6a9b3238cdd42fa72cd3	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2becaa990b93cbd2928292c0b669d3abb6cf06d4	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33645d3e22720cac1e4548f8fef57bf0649536ee	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/348714018139c39533c55661a0c7c990671396b4	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/548ec0805c399c65ed66c6641be467f717833ab5	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0759696de6851d7536efddfdd2dfed4c4df1f09	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eeb0711801f5e19ef654371b627682aed3b11373	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	5.15
linux	linux_kernel	5.15
linux	linux_kernel	5.15
linux	linux_kernel	5.15

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CVE-2021-47506 (GCVE-0-2021-47506)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-24 15:01 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:48

Title

nfsd: fix use-after-free due to delegation race

Summary

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-05-29 17:04 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7067 records in the last 180 days details

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04a8d07f3d58308b9…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/348714018139c3953…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33645d3e22720cac1…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2becaa990b93cbd29…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0759696de6851d75…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eeb0711801f5e19ef…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/148c816f10fd11df2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/548ec0805c399c65e…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: dff1399f8addf7129c49bb2227469da79cc30b47 , < 04a8d07f3d58308b92630045560799a3faa3ebce (git) Affected: dff1399f8addf7129c49bb2227469da79cc30b47 , < 348714018139c39533c55661a0c7c990671396b4 (git) Affected: dff1399f8addf7129c49bb2227469da79cc30b47 , < 33645d3e22720cac1e4548f8fef57bf0649536ee (git) Affected: dff1399f8addf7129c49bb2227469da79cc30b47 , < 2becaa990b93cbd2928292c0b669d3abb6cf06d4 (git) Affected: dff1399f8addf7129c49bb2227469da79cc30b47 , < e0759696de6851d7536efddfdd2dfed4c4df1f09 (git) Affected: dff1399f8addf7129c49bb2227469da79cc30b47 , < eeb0711801f5e19ef654371b627682aed3b11373 (git) Affected: dff1399f8addf7129c49bb2227469da79cc30b47 , < 148c816f10fd11df27ca6a9b3238cdd42fa72cd3 (git) Affected: dff1399f8addf7129c49bb2227469da79cc30b47 , < 548ec0805c399c65ed66c6641be467f717833ab5 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 3.17 Unaffected: 0 , < 3.17 (semver) Unaffected: 4.4.296 , ≤ 4.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.9.294 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.259 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.222 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.168 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.85 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.8 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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