Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2021-47637 First vendor Publication 2025-02-26
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2025-03-18

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 5.5
Base Score 5.5 Environmental Score 5.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 5.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 1.8
 
Attack Vector Local Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score N/A Attack Range N/A
Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ubifs: Fix deadlock in concurrent rename whiteout and inode writeback

Following hung tasks: [ 77.028764] task:kworker/u8:4 state:D stack: 0 pid: 132 [ 77.028820] Call Trace: [ 77.029027] schedule+0x8c/0x1b0 [ 77.029067] mutex_lock+0x50/0x60 [ 77.029074] ubifs_write_inode+0x68/0x1f0 [ubifs] [ 77.029117] __writeback_single_inode+0x43c/0x570 [ 77.029128] writeback_sb_inodes+0x259/0x740 [ 77.029148] wb_writeback+0x107/0x4d0 [ 77.029163] wb_workfn+0x162/0x7b0

[ 92.390442] task:aa state:D stack: 0 pid: 1506 [ 92.390448] Call Trace: [ 92.390458] schedule+0x8c/0x1b0 [ 92.390461] wb_wait_for_completion+0x82/0xd0 [ 92.390469] __writeback_inodes_sb_nr+0xb2/0x110 [ 92.390472] writeback_inodes_sb_nr+0x14/0x20 [ 92.390476] ubifs_budget_space+0x705/0xdd0 [ubifs] [ 92.390503] do_rename.cold+0x7f/0x187 [ubifs] [ 92.390549] ubifs_rename+0x8b/0x180 [ubifs] [ 92.390571] vfs_rename+0xdb2/0x1170 [ 92.390580] do_renameat2+0x554/0x770

, are caused by concurrent rename whiteout and inode writeback processes:
rename_whiteout(Thread 1) wb_workfn(Thread2) ubifs_rename
do_rename
lock_4_inodes (Hold ui_mutex)
ubifs_budget_space
make_free_space
shrink_liability
__writeback_inodes_sb_nr
bdi_split_work_to_wbs (Queue new wb work)
wb_do_writeback(wb work)
__writeback_single_inode
ubifs_write_inode
LOCK(ui_mutex)
?
wb_wait_for_completion (Wait wb work) <-- deadlock!

Reproducer (Detail program in [Link]):
1. SYS_renameat2("/mp/dir/file", "/mp/dir/whiteout", RENAME_WHITEOUT)
2. Consume out of space before kernel(mdelay) doing budget for whiteout

Fix it by doing whiteout space budget before locking ubifs inodes. BTW, it also fixes wrong goto tag 'out_release' in whiteout budget error handling path(It should at least recover dir i_size and unlock 4 ubifs inodes).

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-47637

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-667 Insufficient Locking

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 7
Os 3525

Sources (Detail)

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37bdf1ad592555ecda1d55b89f6e393e4c0589d1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70e9090acc32348cedc5def0cd6d5c126efc97b9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83e42a78428fc354f5e2049935b84c8d8d29b787
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b278c8dcfb565cb65eceb62a38cbf7a7c326db5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9dddc8211430fb851ddf0b168e3a00c6f66cc185
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afd427048047e8efdedab30e8888044e2be5aa9c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c58af8564a7b08757173009030b74baf4b2b762b
Source Url

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Date Informations
2025-03-29 02:58:09
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