CVE-2021-47044

A shift-out-of-bounds vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel, which affects the loadbalance function in the sched/fair component, and is caused when the to-be-active-balanced task is not allowed to run on env-dstcpu, allowing the sd-nrbalancefailed value to grow exceedingly large. Mitigation...

Spoofing

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/fair: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in loadbalance Syzbot reported a handful of occurrences where an sd-nrbalancefailed can grow to much higher values than one would expect. A successful loadbalance resets it to 0; a failed one...

GSD-2021-1000374 sched/fair: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in load_balance()

sched/fair: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in loadbalance This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.10.37 by commit...