Bug 2282925 (CVE-2021-47491)

Summary:	CVE-2021-47491 kernel: mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	ybuenos
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, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jshortt, jstancek, jwyatt, kcarcia, ldoskova, lgoncalv, lzampier, mbenatto, mleitner, mmilgram, mstowell, nmurray, ptalbert, rparrazo, rrobaina, rvrbovsk, scweaver, sidakwo, sukulkar, tglozar, vkumar, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote, ykopkova, zhijwang
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	2282978

Description ybuenos 2024-05-23 10:26:58 UTC

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

mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-47491 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024052241-CVE-2021-47491-437d@gregkh/T

Comment 4 Alex 2024-06-09 17:11:28 UTC

The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2021-47491 is: CHECK	Maybe valid. Check manually. with impact LOW (that is an approximation based on flags IMPROVEONLY  ; 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.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2024-08-08 04:44:45 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:5102 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5102

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2024-08-08 04:56:26 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:5101 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5101