[SRU H/I/OEM-5.10 0/1] CVE-2021-41073
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
cascardo at canonical.com
Mon Sep 20 13:33:41 UTC 2021
[Impact]
A vulnerability on io_uring was found and it might lead to local
privilege escalation.
[Test case]
A small test case that leads to a crashed kernel was tested and the fixed
versions did not crash after many runs on a loop.
5.11 and 5.13 were tested.
[Potential regressions]
Programs that use io_uring might fail to read or write some files.
Jens Axboe (1):
io_uring: ensure symmetry in handling iter types in loop_rw_iter()
fs/io_uring.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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2.30.2
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