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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47462" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-22T06:23:23.034Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:55:11.463Z" 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-2021-47462" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47462.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47462" title: "mm/mempolicy: do not allow illegal MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING | MPOL_LOCAL in mbind()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/mempolicy: do not allow illegal MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING | MPOL_LOCAL in mbind()\n\nsyzbot reported access to unitialized memory in mbind() [1]\n\nIssue came with commit bda420b98505 (\"numa balancing: migrate on fault\namong multiple bound nodes\")\n\nThis commit added a new bit in MPOL_MODE_FLAGS, but only checked valid\ncombination (MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING can only be used with MPOL_BIND) in\ndo_set_mempolicy()\n\nThis patch moves the check in sanitize_mpol_flags() so that it is also\nused by mbind()\n\n [1]\n BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __mpol_equal+0x567/0x590 mm/mempolicy.c:2260\n __mpol_equal+0x567/0x590 mm/mempolicy.c:2260\n mpol_equal include/linux/mempolicy.h:105 [inline]\n vma_merge+0x4a1/0x1e60 mm/mmap.c:1190\n mbind_range+0xcc8/0x1e80 mm/mempolicy.c:811\n do_mbind+0xf42/0x15f0 mm/mempolicy.c:1333\n kernel_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1483 [inline]\n __do_sys_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1490 [inline]\n __se_sys_mbind+0x437/0xb80 mm/mempolicy.c:1486\n __x64_sys_mbind+0x19d/0x200 mm/mempolicy.c:1486\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\n Uninit was created at:\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3221 [inline]\n slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3230 [inline]\n kmem_cache_alloc+0x751/0xff0 mm/slub.c:3235\n mpol_new mm/mempolicy.c:293 [inline]\n do_mbind+0x912/0x15f0 mm/mempolicy.c:1289\n kernel_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1483 [inline]\n __do_sys_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1490 [inline]\n __se_sys_mbind+0x437/0xb80 mm/mempolicy.c:1486\n __x64_sys_mbind+0x19d/0x200 mm/mempolicy.c:1486\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n =====================================================\n Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_kmsan set ...\n CPU: 0 PID: 15049 Comm: syz-executor.0 Tainted: G B 5.15.0-rc2-syzkaller #0\n Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011\n Call Trace:\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x1ff/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106\n dump_stack+0x25/0x28 lib/dump_stack.c:113\n panic+0x44f/0xdeb kernel/panic.c:232\n kmsan_report+0x2ee/0x300 mm/kmsan/report.c:186\n __msan_warning+0xd7/0x150 mm/kmsan/instrumentation.c:208\n __mpol_equal+0x567/0x590 mm/mempolicy.c:2260\n mpol_equal include/linux/mempolicy.h:105 [inline]\n vma_merge+0x4a1/0x1e60 mm/mmap.c:1190\n mbind_range+0xcc8/0x1e80 mm/mempolicy.c:811\n do_mbind+0xf42/0x15f0 mm/mempolicy.c:1333\n kernel_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1483 [inline]\n __do_sys_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1490 [inline]\n __se_sys_mbind+0x437/0xb80 mm/mempolicy.c:1486\n __x64_sys_mbind+0x19d/0x200 mm/mempolicy.c:1486\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bda420b985054a3badafef23807c4b4fa38a3dff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ee4e9ae98f1f262d6fae0d266cfdf3ba2c321d9"},{"version":"bda420b985054a3badafef23807c4b4fa38a3dff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d2aec9e123bb9c49cb5c7fc654f25f81e688e8c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.14.15","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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