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HistoryFeb 29, 2024 - 9:19 a.m.

CVE-2021-46993

2024-02-2909:19:43
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linux kernel
vulnerability
out-of-bound access
uclamp
size computation
buckets
task clamp

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

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.

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%