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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47343" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-21T14:35:50.293Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:47:20.543Z" 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-2021-47343" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47343.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47343" title: "dm btree remove: assign new_root only when removal succeeds" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm btree remove: assign new_root only when removal succeeds\n\nremove_raw() in dm_btree_remove() may fail due to IO read error\n(e.g. read the content of origin block fails during shadowing),\nand the value of shadow_spine::root is uninitialized, but\nthe uninitialized value is still assign to new_root in the\nend of dm_btree_remove().\n\nFor dm-thin, the value of pmd-\u003edetails_root or pmd-\u003eroot will become\nan uninitialized value, so if trying to read details_info tree again\nout-of-bound memory may occur as showed below:\n\n general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x3fdcb14c8d7520\n CPU: 4 PID: 515 Comm: dmsetup Not tainted 5.13.0-rc6\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC\n RIP: 0010:metadata_ll_load_ie+0x14/0x30\n Call Trace:\n sm_metadata_count_is_more_than_one+0xb9/0xe0\n dm_tm_shadow_block+0x52/0x1c0\n shadow_step+0x59/0xf0\n remove_raw+0xb2/0x170\n dm_btree_remove+0xf4/0x1c0\n dm_pool_delete_thin_device+0xc3/0x140\n pool_message+0x218/0x2b0\n target_message+0x251/0x290\n ctl_ioctl+0x1c4/0x4d0\n dm_ctl_ioctl+0xe/0x20\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7b/0xb0\n do_syscall_64+0x40/0xb0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\nFixing it by only assign new_root when removal succeeds" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3241b1d3e0aaafbfcd320f4d71ade629728cc4f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c84b3e0728ffe10d89c633694c35a02b5c477dc"},{"version":"3241b1d3e0aaafbfcd320f4d71ade629728cc4f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c154775619186781aaf8a99333ac07437a1768d5"},{"version":"3241b1d3e0aaafbfcd320f4d71ade629728cc4f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73f27adaa73e3057a9ec464e33c4f54d34ea5de3"},{"version":"3241b1d3e0aaafbfcd320f4d71ade629728cc4f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8fbae4a1bdb5b889490cdee929e68540151536e5"},{"version":"3241b1d3e0aaafbfcd320f4d71ade629728cc4f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"964d57d1962d7e68f0f578f05d9ae4a104d74851"},{"version":"3241b1d3e0aaafbfcd320f4d71ade629728cc4f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba47e65a5de3e0e8270301a409fc63d3129fdb9e"},{"version":"3241b1d3e0aaafbfcd320f4d71ade629728cc4f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89bf942314b78d454db92427201421b5dec132d9"},{"version":"3241b1d3e0aaafbfcd320f4d71ade629728cc4f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad365e9351ac2b450e7e79932ff6abf59342d91a"},{"version":"3241b1d3e0aaafbfcd320f4d71ade629728cc4f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b6e58b5466b2959f83034bead2e2e1395cca8aeb"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.2"},{"version":"4.4.276","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.4.*"},{"version":"4.9.276","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.240","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.198","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.133","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.12.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.13.*"},{"version":"5.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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