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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47569"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-24T15:12:55.394Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:57:09.623Z"
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-2021-47569"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47569.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47569"
title: "io_uring: fail cancellation for EXITING tasks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring: fail cancellation for EXITING tasks\n\nWARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 20 at fs/io_uring.c:6269 io_try_cancel_userdata+0x3c5/0x640 fs/io_uring.c:6269\nCPU: 1 PID: 20 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1-syzkaller #0\nWorkqueue: events io_fallback_req_func\nRIP: 0010:io_try_cancel_userdata+0x3c5/0x640 fs/io_uring.c:6269\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n io_req_task_link_timeout+0x6b/0x1e0 fs/io_uring.c:6886\n io_fallback_req_func+0xf9/0x1ae fs/io_uring.c:1334\n process_one_work+0x9b2/0x1690 kernel/workqueue.c:2298\n worker_thread+0x658/0x11f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2445\n kthread+0x405/0x4f0 kernel/kthread.c:327\n ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nWe need original task's context to do cancellations, so if it's dying\nand the callback is executed in a fallback mode, fail the cancellation\nattempt."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"89b263f6d56e683ddcf7643140271ef6e36c72b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d2a1e68fd9904fdc1b02f2e7d40ca47df7ba39f"},{"version":"89b263f6d56e683ddcf7643140271ef6e36c72b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"617a89484debcd4e7999796d693cf0b77d2519de"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"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"}]

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