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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47040"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-28T08:13:46.557Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:45:40.950Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47040"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47040.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47040"
title: "io_uring: fix overflows checks in provide buffers"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring: fix overflows checks in provide buffers\n\nColin reported before possible overflow and sign extension problems in\nio_provide_buffers_prep(). As Linus pointed out previous attempt did nothing\nuseful, see d81269fecb8ce (\"io_uring: fix provide_buffers sign extension\").\n\nDo that with help of check_\u003cop\u003e_overflow helpers. And fix struct\nio_provide_buf::len type, as it doesn't make much sense to keep it\nsigned."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"efe68c1ca8f49e8c06afd74b699411bfbb8ba1ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cbbc13b115b8f18e0a714d89f87fbdc499acfe2d"},{"version":"efe68c1ca8f49e8c06afd74b699411bfbb8ba1ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51bf90901952aaac564bbdb36b2b503050c53dd9"},{"version":"efe68c1ca8f49e8c06afd74b699411bfbb8ba1ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84b8c266c4bfe9ed5128e13253c388deb74b1b03"},{"version":"efe68c1ca8f49e8c06afd74b699411bfbb8ba1ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"38134ada0ceea3e848fe993263c0ff6207fd46e7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.37","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.11.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.11.*"},{"version":"5.12.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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