CVE-2021-4023

Summary

CVECVE-2021-4023
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-03-10 17:44:00 UTC
Updated2022-03-15 17:10:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in the io-workqueue implementation in the Linux kernel versions prior to 5.15-rc1. The kernel can panic when an improper cancellation operation triggers the submission of new io-uring operations during a shortage of free space. This flaw allows a local user with permissions to execute io-uring requests to possibly crash the system.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2026484 – (CVE-2021-4023) CVE-2021-4023 kernel: Improper IO-uring request cancellation operation allows local users to cause a crash MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 183463 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2021-4023)
  • 900749 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (8943)
  • 901314 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (8943-1)
  • 906102 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (8943-2)

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