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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47544" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-24T15:09:49.895Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:48:19.884Z" 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-2021-47544" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47544.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47544" title: "tcp: fix page frag corruption on page fault" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: fix page frag corruption on page fault\n\nSteffen reported a TCP stream corruption for HTTP requests\nserved by the apache web-server using a cifs mount-point\nand memory mapping the relevant file.\n\nThe root cause is quite similar to the one addressed by\ncommit 20eb4f29b602 (\"net: fix sk_page_frag() recursion from\nmemory reclaim\"). Here the nested access to the task page frag\nis caused by a page fault on the (mmapped) user-space memory\nbuffer coming from the cifs file.\n\nThe page fault handler performs an smb transaction on a different\nsocket, inside the same process context. Since sk-\u003esk_allaction\nfor such socket does not prevent the usage for the task_frag,\nthe nested allocation modify \"under the hood\" the page frag\nin use by the outer sendmsg call, corrupting the stream.\n\nThe overall relevant stack trace looks like the following:\n\nhttpd 78268 [001] 3461630.850950: probe:tcp_sendmsg_locked:\n ffffffff91461d91 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x1\n ffffffff91462b57 tcp_sendmsg+0x27\n ffffffff9139814e sock_sendmsg+0x3e\n ffffffffc06dfe1d smb_send_kvec+0x28\n [...]\n ffffffffc06cfaf8 cifs_readpages+0x213\n ffffffff90e83c4b read_pages+0x6b\n ffffffff90e83f31 __do_page_cache_readahead+0x1c1\n ffffffff90e79e98 filemap_fault+0x788\n ffffffff90eb0458 __do_fault+0x38\n ffffffff90eb5280 do_fault+0x1a0\n ffffffff90eb7c84 __handle_mm_fault+0x4d4\n ffffffff90eb8093 handle_mm_fault+0xc3\n ffffffff90c74f6d __do_page_fault+0x1ed\n ffffffff90c75277 do_page_fault+0x37\n ffffffff9160111e page_fault+0x1e\n ffffffff9109e7b5 copyin+0x25\n ffffffff9109eb40 _copy_from_iter_full+0xe0\n ffffffff91462370 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x5e0\n ffffffff91462370 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x5e0\n ffffffff91462b57 tcp_sendmsg+0x27\n ffffffff9139815c sock_sendmsg+0x4c\n ffffffff913981f7 sock_write_iter+0x97\n ffffffff90f2cc56 do_iter_readv_writev+0x156\n ffffffff90f2dff0 do_iter_write+0x80\n ffffffff90f2e1c3 vfs_writev+0xa3\n ffffffff90f2e27c do_writev+0x5c\n ffffffff90c042bb do_syscall_64+0x5b\n ffffffff916000ad entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65\n\nThe cifs filesystem rightfully sets sk_allocations to GFP_NOFS,\nwe can avoid the nesting using the sk page frag for allocation\nlacking the __GFP_FS flag. Do not define an additional mm-helper\nfor that, as this is strictly tied to the sk page frag usage.\n\nv1 -\u003e v2:\n - use a stricted sk_page_frag() check instead of reordering the\n code (Eric)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5640f7685831e088fe6c2e1f863a6805962f8e81","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c6f340a331fb72e5ac23a083de9c780e132ca3ae"},{"version":"5640f7685831e088fe6c2e1f863a6805962f8e81","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a9afcd827cafe14a95c9fcbded2c2d104f18dfc"},{"version":"5640f7685831e088fe6c2e1f863a6805962f8e81","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dacb5d8875cc6cd3a553363b4d6f06760fcbe70c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.7"},{"version":"5.10.84","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16","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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