Bug 2266378 (CVE-2021-46937)

Summary: CVE-2021-46937 kernel: fix 'struct pid' leaks in 'dbgfs_target_ids_write()'
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Description Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-02-27 17:43:39 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/damon/dbgfs: fix &#39;struct pid&#39; leaks in &#39;dbgfs_target_ids_write()&#39;

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-46937 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024022751-CVE-2021-46937-3ae8@gregkh/T/#u

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-02-27 17:44:21 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2266379]

Comment 5 Justin M. Forbes 2024-02-27 18:26:58 UTC
This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.15.13 stable kernel updates.

Comment 7 Alex 2024-06-09 16:21:36 UTC
The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2021-46937 is: CHECK	Maybe valid. Check manually. with impact LOW (that is an approximation based on flags WRITE SIMPLEFIX LEAK  ; these flags parsed automatically based on patch data). Such automatic check happens only for Low/Moderates (and only when not from reporter, but parsing already existing CVE). Highs always checked manually (I check it myself and then we check it again in Remediation team). In rare cases some of the Moderates could be increased to High later.