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nvd416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67NVD:CVE-2021-47491
HistoryMay 22, 2024 - 9:15 a.m.

CVE-2021-47491

2024-05-2209:15:10
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
web.nvd.nist.gov
linux kernel
khugepaged
vulnerability
thp
filesystems
tlb misses
fix
attack surface
regular files

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.6%

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

mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files

The read-only THP for filesystems will collapse THP for files opened
readonly and mapped with VM_EXEC. The intended usecase is to avoid TLB
misses for large text segments. But it doesn’t restrict the file types
so a THP could be collapsed for a non-regular file, for example, block
device, if it is opened readonly and mapped with EXEC permission. This
may cause bugs, like [1] and [2].

This is definitely not the intended usecase, so just collapse THP for
regular files in order to close the attack surface.

[[email protected]: fix vm_file check [3]]

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.6%