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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2021-46993

sched: Fix out-of-bound access in uclamp

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: Fix out-of-bound access in uclamp Util-clamp places tasks in different buckets based on their clamp values for performance reasons. However, the size of buckets is currently computed using a rounding division, which can lead to an off-by-one error in some configurations. For instance, with 20 buckets, the bucket size will be 1024/20=51. A task with a clamp of 1024 will be mapped to bucket id 1024/51=20. Sadly, correct indexes are in range [0,19], hence leading to an out of bound memory access. Clamp the bucket id to fix the issue.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 69842cba9ace84849bb9b8edcdf2cefccd97901c to < 687f523c134b7f0bd040ee1230f6d17990d54172affected
  • 69842cba9ace84849bb9b8edcdf2cefccd97901c to < f7347c85490b92dd144fa1fba9e1eca501656ab3affected
  • 69842cba9ace84849bb9b8edcdf2cefccd97901c to < 3da3f804b82a0a382d523a21acf4cf3bb35f936daffected
  • 69842cba9ace84849bb9b8edcdf2cefccd97901c to < 42ee47c7e3569d9a0e2cb5053c496d97d380472faffected
  • 69842cba9ace84849bb9b8edcdf2cefccd97901c to < 6d2f8909a5fabb73fe2a63918117943986c39b6caffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 5.3affected
  • 0 to < 5.3unaffected
  • 5.4.120 to ≤ 5.4.*unaffected
  • 5.10.38 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.11.22 to ≤ 5.11.*unaffected
  • 5.12.5 to ≤ 5.12.*unaffected
  • 5.13 to ≤ *unaffected

References