linux — security advisory

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  "id": "e5cbb84667521d31f3681fd86cf30c773ca073bea6fe704c552272a339b7833d",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47481",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47481",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mlx5: Initialize the ODP xarray when creating an ODP MR Normally the zero fill would hide the missing initialization, but an errant set to desc_size in reg_create() causes a crash: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000800000000 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 5 PID: 890 Comm: ib_write_bw Not tainted 5.15.0-rc4+ #47 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:mlx5_ib_dereg_mr+0x14/0x3b0 [mlx5_ib] Code: 48 63 cd 4c 89 f7 48 89 0c 24 e8 37 30 03 e1 48 8b 0c 24 eb a0 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 56 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 30 <48> 8b 2f 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 28 31 c0 8b 87 c8 RSP: 0018:ffff88811afa3a60 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 000000000000001c RBX: 0000000800000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000800000000 RBP: 0000000800000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: c0000000fffff7ff R10: ffff88811afa38f8 R11: ffff88811afa38f0 R12: ffffffffa02c7ac0 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88811afa3cd8 R15: ffff88810772fa00 FS: 00007f47b9080740(0000) GS:ffff88852cd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000800000000 CR3: 000000010761e003 CR4: 0000000000370ea0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: mlx5_ib_free_od",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47481",
    "products": [
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        "name": {
          "value": "linux",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
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          {
            "value": "5.15.3-1",
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          }
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    ],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:12"
          },
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        },
        {
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              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:13"
          },
          "database_specific": {
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
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          }
        },
        {
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              ]
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:14"
          },
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-23T18:04:51.458877367Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2021-47481"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-47481"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-47481",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 424154,
  "published_at": "2024-05-22T09:15:10.07+00:00"
}