Bug 2266831 (CVE-2021-46972)

Summary:	CVE-2021-46972 kernel: ovl: fix leaked dentry
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, allarkin, aquini, bhu, chwhite, cye, cyin, dbohanno, debarbos, dfreiber, drow, dvlasenk, esandeen, ezulian, hkrzesin, jarod, jburrell, jdenham, jfaracco, jforbes, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jshortt, jstancek, jwyatt, kcarcia, ldoskova, lgoncalv, lzampier, mleitner, mmilgram, mstowell, nmurray, ptalbert, rparrazo, rrobaina, rvrbovsk, rysulliv, scweaver, sidakwo, sukulkar, tglozar, tyberry, vkumar, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote, ykopkova, zhijwang
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kernel 5.10.35, kernel 5.11.19, kernel 5.12.2, kernel 5.13	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	2266832
Bug Blocks:	2266839

Description Avinash Hanwate 2024-02-29 07:04:16 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ovl: fix leaked dentry

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-46972 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024022721-CVE-2021-46972-2ec2@gregkh/T/#u

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-02-29 07:04:53 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2266832]

Comment 6 Justin M. Forbes 2024-03-01 22:23:22 UTC

This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.11.19 stable kernel updates.

Comment 7 Alex 2024-06-09 15:47:57 UTC

The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2021-46972 is: CHECK	Maybe valid. Check manually. with impact LOW (that is approximation based on flags DISK WARNONLY LEAK  ; these flags parsed automatically based on patche 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.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2024-07-02 08:54:07 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:4211 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4211

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2024-07-08 02:01:51 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:4352 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4352