CVE-2021-47432 (GCVE-0-2021-47432)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-21 15:30 – Updated: 2025-12-18 11:37
VLAI?
Title
lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Don't overflow in peek()
Summary
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.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: ba20ba2e3743bac786dff777954c11930256075e , < 784d01f9bbc282abb0c5ade5beb98a87f50343ac (git)
Affected: ba20ba2e3743bac786dff777954c11930256075e , < ec298b958cb0c40d70c68079da933c8f31c5134c (git)
Affected: ba20ba2e3743bac786dff777954c11930256075e , < aa7f1827953100cdde0795289a80c6c077bfe437 (git)
Affected: ba20ba2e3743bac786dff777954c11930256075e , < 9492261ff2460252cf2d8de89cdf854c7e2b28a0 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.64 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.13 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.3 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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