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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47375" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:03:39.090Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:53:29.691Z" 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-2021-47375" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47375.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47375" title: "blktrace: Fix uaf in blk_trace access after removing by sysfs" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblktrace: Fix uaf in blk_trace access after removing by sysfs\n\nThere is an use-after-free problem triggered by following process:\n\n P1(sda)\t\t\t\tP2(sdb)\n\t\t\techo 0 \u003e /sys/block/sdb/trace/enable\n\t\t\t blk_trace_remove_queue\n\t\t\t synchronize_rcu\n\t\t\t blk_trace_free\n\t\t\t relay_close\nrcu_read_lock\n__blk_add_trace\n trace_note_tsk\n (Iterate running_trace_list)\n\t\t\t relay_close_buf\n\t\t\t\t relay_destroy_buf\n\t\t\t\t kfree(buf)\n trace_note(sdb's bt)\n relay_reserve\n buf-\u003eoffset \u003c- nullptr deference (use-after-free) !!!\nrcu_read_unlock\n\n[ 502.714379] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:\n0000000000000010\n[ 502.715260] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n[ 502.715903] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n[ 502.716546] PGD 103984067 P4D 103984067 PUD 17592b067 PMD 0\n[ 502.717252] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP\n[ 502.720308] RIP: 0010:trace_note.isra.0+0x86/0x360\n[ 502.732872] Call Trace:\n[ 502.733193] __blk_add_trace.cold+0x137/0x1a3\n[ 502.733734] blk_add_trace_rq+0x7b/0xd0\n[ 502.734207] blk_add_trace_rq_issue+0x54/0xa0\n[ 502.734755] blk_mq_start_request+0xde/0x1b0\n[ 502.735287] scsi_queue_rq+0x528/0x1140\n...\n[ 502.742704] sg_new_write.isra.0+0x16e/0x3e0\n[ 502.747501] sg_ioctl+0x466/0x1100\n\nReproduce method:\n ioctl(/dev/sda, BLKTRACESETUP, blk_user_trace_setup[buf_size=127])\n ioctl(/dev/sda, BLKTRACESTART)\n ioctl(/dev/sdb, BLKTRACESETUP, blk_user_trace_setup[buf_size=127])\n ioctl(/dev/sdb, BLKTRACESTART)\n\n echo 0 \u003e /sys/block/sdb/trace/enable &\n // Add delay(mdelay/msleep) before kernel enters blk_trace_free()\n\n ioctl$SG_IO(/dev/sda, SG_IO, ...)\n // Enters trace_note_tsk() after blk_trace_free() returned\n // Use mdelay in rcu region rather than msleep(which may schedule out)\n\nRemove blk_trace from running_list before calling blk_trace_free() by\nsysfs if blk_trace is at Blktrace_running state." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c71a896154119f4ca9e89d6078f5f63ad60ef199","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"488da313edf3abea7f7733efe011c96b23740ab5"},{"version":"c71a896154119f4ca9e89d6078f5f63ad60ef199","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dacfd5e4d1142bfb3809aab3634a375f6f373269"},{"version":"c71a896154119f4ca9e89d6078f5f63ad60ef199","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d56171d9360c0170c5c5f8f7e2362a2e999eca40"},{"version":"c71a896154119f4ca9e89d6078f5f63ad60ef199","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"677e362ba807f3aafe6f405c07e0b37244da5222"},{"version":"c71a896154119f4ca9e89d6078f5f63ad60ef199","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ebb8d26d93c3ec3c7576c52a8373a2309423c069"},{"version":"c71a896154119f4ca9e89d6078f5f63ad60ef199","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3815fe7371d2411ce164281cef40d9fc7b323dee"},{"version":"c71a896154119f4ca9e89d6078f5f63ad60ef199","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a5f8e86192612d0183047448d8bbe7918b3f1a26"},{"version":"c71a896154119f4ca9e89d6078f5f63ad60ef199","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5afedf670caf30a2b5a52da96eb7eac7dee6a9c9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.30","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.30"},{"version":"4.4.286","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.4.*"},{"version":"4.9.285","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.249","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.150","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.70","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.14.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.14.*"},{"version":"5.15","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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