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CVE-2021-46935

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2021
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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binder: fix async_free_space accounting for empty parcels

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix async_free_space accounting for empty parcels In 4.13, commit 74310e06be4d ("android: binder: Move buffer out of area shared with user space") fixed a kernel structure visibility issue. As part of that patch, sizeof(void *) was used as the buffer size for 0-length data payloads so the driver could detect abusive clients sending 0-length asynchronous transactions to a server by enforcing limits on async_free_size. Unfortunately, on the "free" side, the accounting of async_free_space did not add the sizeof(void *) back. The result was that up to 8-bytes of async_free_space were leaked on every async transaction of 8-bytes or less. These small transactions are uncommon, so this accounting issue has gone undetected for several years. The fix is to use "buffer_size" (the allocated buffer size) instead of "size" (the logical buffer size) when updating the async_free_space during the free operation. These are the same except for this corner case of asynchronous transactions with payloads < 8 bytes.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
74310e06be4d74dcf67cd108366710dee5c576d5affectedgit2d2df539d05205fd83c404d5f2dff48d36f9b495UnavailableNone listed
74310e06be4d74dcf67cd108366710dee5c576d5affectedgit7c7064402609aeb6fb11be1b4ec10673ff17b593UnavailableNone listed
74310e06be4d74dcf67cd108366710dee5c576d5affectedgit103b16a8c51f96d5fe063022869ea906c256e5daUnavailableNone listed
74310e06be4d74dcf67cd108366710dee5c576d5affectedgit1cb8444f3114f0bb2f6e3bcadcf09aa4a28425d4UnavailableNone listed
74310e06be4d74dcf67cd108366710dee5c576d5affectedgit17691bada6b2f1d5f1c0f6d28cd9d0727023b0ffUnavailableNone listed
74310e06be4d74dcf67cd108366710dee5c576d5affectedgitcfd0d84ba28c18b531648c9d4a35ecca89ad9901UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
4.14affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver4.14UnavailableNone listed
4.14.261unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.14.*None listed
4.19.224unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.19.*None listed
5.4.170unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.4.*None listed
5.10.90unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.13unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
5.16unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed