The vulnerability of the afs_extend_writeback() function in the fs/afs/write.c module of the Linux file system support module allows a hacker to gain access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the afsextendwriteback function in the fs/afs/write.c module of the Linux file system support module is related to incomplete cleanup of temporary or auxiliary resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain access to protected information...

SUSE CVE-2021-47365

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix page leak There's a loop in afsextendwriteback that adds extra pages to a write we want to make to improve the efficiency of the writeback by making it larger. This loop stops, however, if we hit a page we can't write ba...

CVE-2021-47365

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix page leak There's a loop in afsextendwriteback that adds extra pages to a write we want to make to improve the efficiency of the writeback by making it larger. This loop stops, however, if we hit a page we can't write ba...

CVE-2021-47365

The CVE-2021-47365 issue affects Linux kernel afs: a loop in afs_extend_writeback() could leak pages when expanding a writeback, due to removing the cleanup loop after switching from find_get_pages_contig() to xarray scanning. The fix adds an early-break handling that places the page on a referen...