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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47566" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-24T15:12:53.432Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:57:06.193Z" 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-2021-47566" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47566.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47566" title: "proc/vmcore: fix clearing user buffer by properly using clear_user()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nproc/vmcore: fix clearing user buffer by properly using clear_user()\n\nTo clear a user buffer we cannot simply use memset, we have to use\nclear_user(). With a virtio-mem device that registers a vmcore_cb and\nhas some logically unplugged memory inside an added Linux memory block,\nI can easily trigger a BUG by copying the vmcore via \"cp\":\n\n systemd[1]: Starting Kdump Vmcore Save Service...\n kdump[420]: Kdump is using the default log level(3).\n kdump[453]: saving to /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2021-11-11-14:59:22/\n kdump[458]: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt to /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2021-11-11-14:59:22/\n kdump[465]: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt complete\n kdump[467]: saving vmcore\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00007f2374e01000\n #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation\n PGD 7a523067 P4D 7a523067 PUD 7a528067 PMD 7a525067 PTE 800000007048f867\n Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 0 PID: 468 Comm: cp Not tainted 5.15.0+ #6\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.14.0-27-g64f37cc530f1-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:read_from_oldmem.part.0.cold+0x1d/0x86\n Code: ff ff ff e8 05 ff fe ff e9 b9 e9 7f ff 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 38 3b 60 82 e8 f1 fe fe ff 83 fd 08 72 3c 49 8d 7d 08 4c 89 e9 89 e8 \u003c49\u003e c7 45 00 00 00 00 00 49 c7 44 05 f8 00 00 00 00 48 83 e7 f81\n RSP: 0018:ffffc9000073be08 EFLAGS: 00010212\n RAX: 0000000000001000 RBX: 00000000002fd000 RCX: 00007f2374e01000\n RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00000000ffffdfff RDI: 00007f2374e01008\n RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc9000073bc50\n R10: ffffc9000073bc48 R11: ffffffff829461a8 R12: 000000000000f000\n R13: 00007f2374e01000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88807bd421e8\n FS: 00007f2374e12140(0000) GS:ffff88807f000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 00007f2374e01000 CR3: 000000007a4aa000 CR4: 0000000000350eb0\n Call Trace:\n read_vmcore+0x236/0x2c0\n proc_reg_read+0x55/0xa0\n vfs_read+0x95/0x190\n ksys_read+0x4f/0xc0\n do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\nSome x86-64 CPUs have a CPU feature called \"Supervisor Mode Access\nPrevention (SMAP)\", which is used to detect wrong access from the kernel\nto user buffers like this: SMAP triggers a permissions violation on\nwrong access. In the x86-64 variant of clear_user(), SMAP is properly\nhandled via clac()+stac().\n\nTo fix, properly use clear_user() when we're dealing with a user buffer." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"997c136f518c5debd63847e78e2a8694f56dcf90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9e164bd160be8cbee1df70acb379129e3cd2e7c"},{"version":"997c136f518c5debd63847e78e2a8694f56dcf90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"33a7d698f30fa0b99d50569e9909d3baa65d8f6a"},{"version":"997c136f518c5debd63847e78e2a8694f56dcf90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"99d348b82bcb36171f24411d3f1a15706a2a937a"},{"version":"997c136f518c5debd63847e78e2a8694f56dcf90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ef384ed300d1bcfb23d0ab0b487d544444d4b52"},{"version":"997c136f518c5debd63847e78e2a8694f56dcf90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd7974c547abfb03072a4ee706d3a6f182266f89"},{"version":"997c136f518c5debd63847e78e2a8694f56dcf90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8a917058faf4abaec9fb614bb6d5f8fe3529ec6"},{"version":"997c136f518c5debd63847e78e2a8694f56dcf90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7b3a34f08d11e7f05cd00b8e09adaa15192f0ad1"},{"version":"997c136f518c5debd63847e78e2a8694f56dcf90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1e63117711977cc4295b2ce73de29dd17066c82"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.0"},{"version":"4.4.294","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.4.*"},{"version":"4.9.292","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.257","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.219","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.6","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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