{"cve":"CVE-2021-47274","nvd":{"published":"2024-05-21T15:15:15.830","modified":"2026-08-04T10:16:55.860","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Correct the length check which causes memory corruption\n\nWe've suffered from severe kernel crashes due to memory corruption on\nour production environment, like,\n\nCall Trace:\n[1640542.554277] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\n[1640542.554856] CPU: 17 PID: 26996 Comm: python Kdump: loaded Tainted:G\n[1640542.556629] RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc+0x90/0x190\n[1640542.559074] RSP: 0018:ffffb16faa597df8 EFLAGS: 00010286\n[1640542.559587] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000400200 RCX:\n0000000006e931bf\n[1640542.560323] RDX: 0000000006e931be RSI: 0000000000400200 RDI:\nffff9a45ff004300\n[1640542.560996] RBP: 0000000000400200 R08: 0000000000023420 R09:\n0000000000000000\n[1640542.561670] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12:\nffffffff9a20608d\n[1640542.562366] R13: ffff9a45ff004300 R14: ffff9a45ff004300 R15:\n696c662f65636976\n[1640542.563128] FS:  00007f45d7c6f740(0000) GS:ffff9a45ff840000(0000)\nknlGS:0000000000000000\n[1640542.563937] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[1640542.564557] CR2: 00007f45d71311a0 CR3: 000000189d63e004 CR4:\n00000000003606e0\n[1640542.565279] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2:\n0000000000000000\n[1640542.566069] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7:\n0000000000000400\n[1640542.566742] Call Trace:\n[1640542.567009]  anon_vma_clone+0x5d/0x170\n[1640542.567417]  __split_vma+0x91/0x1a0\n[1640542.567777]  do_munmap+0x2c6/0x320\n[1640542.568128]  vm_munmap+0x54/0x70\n[1640542.569990]  __x64_sys_munmap+0x22/0x30\n[1640542.572005]  do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1b0\n[1640542.573724]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9\n[1640542.575642] RIP: 0033:0x7f45d6e61e27\n\nJames Wang has reproduced it stably on the latest 4.19 LTS.\nAfter some debugging, we finally proved that it's due to ftrace\nbuffer out-of-bound access using a debug tool as follows:\n[   86.775200] BUG: Out-of-bounds write at addr 0xffff88aefe8b7000\n[   86.780806]  no_context+0xdf/0x3c0\n[   86.784327]  __do_page_fault+0x252/0x470\n[   86.788367]  do_page_fault+0x32/0x140\n[   86.792145]  page_fault+0x1e/0x30\n[   86.795576]  strncpy_from_unsafe+0x66/0xb0\n[   86.799789]  fetch_memory_string+0x25/0x40\n[   86.804002]  fetch_deref_string+0x51/0x60\n[   86.808134]  kprobe_trace_func+0x32d/0x3a0\n[   86.812347]  kprobe_dispatcher+0x45/0x50\n[   86.816385]  kprobe_ftrace_handler+0x90/0xf0\n[   86.820779]  ftrace_ops_assist_func+0xa1/0x140\n[   86.825340]  0xffffffffc00750bf\n[   86.828603]  do_sys_open+0x5/0x1f0\n[   86.832124]  do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1b0\n[   86.835900]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9\n\ncommit b220c049d519 (\"tracing: Check length before giving out\nthe filter buffer\") adds length check to protect trace data\noverflow introduced in 0fc1b09ff1ff, seems that this fix can't prevent\noverflow entirely, the length check should also take the sizeof\nentry->array[0] into account, since this array[0] is filled the\nlength of trace data and occupy addtional space and risk overflow.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":["CWE-125"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d598902799886d67947406f26ee8e5fd2ca097f","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31ceae385556c37e4d286cb6378696448f566883","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e08a9f9760f4a70d633c328a76408e62d6f80a3","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43c32c22254b9328d7abb1c2b0f689dc67838e60","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b16a249eca2230c2cd66fa1d4b94743bd9b6ef92"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:50:30.954589733+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2021-47274","score":0.00754,"percentile":0.55092,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}