| Name | CVE-2021-46993 |
| Description | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: Fix out-of-bound access in uclamp Util-clamp places tasks in different buckets based on their clamp values for performance reasons. However, the size of buckets is currently computed using a rounding division, which can lead to an off-by-one error in some configurations. For instance, with 20 buckets, the bucket size will be 1024/20=51. A task with a clamp of 1024 will be mapped to bucket id 1024/51=20. Sadly, correct indexes are in range [0,19], hence leading to an out of bound memory access. Clamp the bucket id to fix the issue. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux (PTS) | buster | 4.19.249-2 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 4.19.304-1 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 5.10.209-2 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.216-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 6.1.76-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.90-1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 6.7.12-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux | source | buster | (not affected) | |||
| linux | source | (unstable) | 5.10.38-1 |
[buster] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/6d2f8909a5fabb73fe2a63918117943986c39b6c (5.13-rc1)