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Tracker / CVE-2021-46993

CVE-2021-46993

High 7.8

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 and versions

linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.11.22
linux linux_kernel · 5.12 → 5.12.5
linux linux_kernel · 5.3 → 5.4.120
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.38

Analysis

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