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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47656" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:54:20.069Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:48:47.063Z" 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-2021-47656" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47656.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47656" title: "jffs2: fix use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njffs2: fix use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem\n\nWhen we mount a jffs2 image, assume that the first few blocks of\nthe image are normal and contain at least one xattr-related inode,\nbut the next block is abnormal. As a result, an error is returned\nin jffs2_scan_eraseblock(). jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() is then\ncalled in jffs2_build_filesystem() and then again in\njffs2_do_fill_super().\n\nFinally we can observe the following report:\n ==================================================================\n BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881243384e0 by task mount/719\n\n Call Trace:\n dump_stack+0x115/0x16b\n jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac\n jffs2_do_fill_super+0x84f/0xc30\n jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0\n mtd_get_sb+0x254/0x400\n mtd_get_sb_by_nr+0x4f/0xd0\n get_tree_mtd+0x498/0x840\n jffs2_get_tree+0x25/0x30\n vfs_get_tree+0x8d/0x2e0\n path_mount+0x50f/0x1e50\n do_mount+0x107/0x130\n __se_sys_mount+0x1c5/0x2f0\n __x64_sys_mount+0xc7/0x160\n do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9\n\n Allocated by task 719:\n kasan_save_stack+0x23/0x60\n __kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0x10b/0x120\n kasan_slab_alloc+0x12/0x20\n kmem_cache_alloc+0x1c0/0x870\n jffs2_alloc_xattr_ref+0x2f/0xa0\n jffs2_scan_medium.cold+0x3713/0x4794\n jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0xa7/0x2253\n jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30\n jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0\n [...]\n\n Freed by task 719:\n kmem_cache_free+0xcc/0x7b0\n jffs2_free_xattr_ref+0x78/0x98\n jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0xa1/0x6ac\n jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0x5e6/0x2253\n jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30\n jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0\n [...]\n\n The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881243384b8\n which belongs to the cache jffs2_xattr_ref of size 48\n The buggy address is located 40 bytes inside of\n 48-byte region [ffff8881243384b8, ffff8881243384e8)\n [...]\n ==================================================================\n\nThe triggering of the BUG is shown in the following stack:\n-----------------------------------------------------------\njffs2_fill_super\n jffs2_do_fill_super\n jffs2_do_mount_fs\n jffs2_build_filesystem\n jffs2_scan_medium\n jffs2_scan_eraseblock \u003c--- ERROR\n jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem \u003c--- free\n jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem \u003c--- free again\n-----------------------------------------------------------\n\nAn error is returned in jffs2_do_mount_fs(). If the error is returned\nby jffs2_sum_init(), the jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() does not need to\nbe executed. If the error is returned by jffs2_build_filesystem(), the\njffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() also does not need to be executed again.\nSo move jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() from 'out_inohash' to 'out_root'\nto fix this UAF problem." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"aa98d7cf59b5b0764d3502662053489585faf2fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9150cb625b46f68d524f4cfd491f1aafc23e10a9"},{"version":"aa98d7cf59b5b0764d3502662053489585faf2fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3bd2454162ec6bbb5503233c804fce6e4b6dcec5"},{"version":"aa98d7cf59b5b0764d3502662053489585faf2fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3b07c875fa8f906f932976460fd14798596f101"},{"version":"aa98d7cf59b5b0764d3502662053489585faf2fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"30bf7244acf32f19cb722c39f7bc1c2a9f300422"},{"version":"aa98d7cf59b5b0764d3502662053489585faf2fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7bb7428dd73991bf4b3a7a61b493ca50046c2b13"},{"version":"aa98d7cf59b5b0764d3502662053489585faf2fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a75740206af5f17e9f3efa384211cba70213da1"},{"version":"aa98d7cf59b5b0764d3502662053489585faf2fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22327bd7988f21de3a53c1373f3b81542bfe1f44"},{"version":"aa98d7cf59b5b0764d3502662053489585faf2fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c0f024f29e055840a5a89fe23b96ae3f921afed"},{"version":"aa98d7cf59b5b0764d3502662053489585faf2fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c7c44ee1650677fbe89d86edbad9497b7679b5c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.18"},{"version":"4.9.311","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.276","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18","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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