Vulnerability · Published May 21, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2021-47432lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Don't overflow in peek()

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 17% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 83.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Don't overflow in peek() When we started spreading new inode numbers throughout most of the 64 bit inode space, that triggered some corner case bugs, in particular some integer overflows related to the radix tree code. Oops.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8bpftool4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-abi-stablelists4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-core4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-cross-headers4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-core4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-devel4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-modules4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-modules-extra4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-devel4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-doc4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-headers4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-modules4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-modules-extra4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10ALSA-2024:7001
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-core4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10ALSA-2024:7001
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-debug4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10ALSA-2024:7001
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-debug-core4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10ALSA-2024:7001
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-debug-devel4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10ALSA-2024:7001
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-debug-kvm4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10ALSA-2024:7001
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-debug-modules4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10ALSA-2024:7001
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10ALSA-2024:7001
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-devel4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10ALSA-2024:7001
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-kvm4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10ALSA-2024:7001
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-modules4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10ALSA-2024:7001
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-modules-extra4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10ALSA-2024:7001
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools-libs4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools-libs-devel4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-core4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-devel4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-modules4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8perf4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8python3-perf4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
Debian:12linux6.1.64-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47432
Debian:13linux6.5.13-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47432
Debian:14linux6.5.13-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47432
Rocky Linux:8kernel0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10RLSA-2024:7000
Rocky Linux:8kernel-rt0:4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10RLSA-2024:7001
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinuxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-awsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azureno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeopno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibmno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotgno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvmno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatencyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.56.5.0-1014.14UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegrano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracleno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspino fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47432

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux ba20ba2e3743bac786dff777954c11930256075e – before 784d01f9bbc282abb0c5ade5beb98a87f50343acba20ba2e3743bac786dff777954c11930256075e – before ec298b958cb0c40d70c68079da933c8f31c5134cba20ba2e3743bac786dff777954c11930256075e – before aa7f1827953100cdde0795289a80c6c077bfe437ba20ba2e3743bac786dff777954c11930256075e – before 9492261ff2460252cf2d8de89cdf854c7e2b28a0
Linux Linux 5.1

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