CVE-2021-47656
CVE-2021-47656CVE-2021-47656
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jffs2: fix use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem
When we mount a jffs2 image, assume that the first few blocks of
the image are normal and contain at least one xattr-related inode,
but the next block is abnormal. As a result, an error is returned
in jffs2_scan_eraseblock(). jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() is then
called in jffs2_build_filesystem() and then again in
jffs2_do_fill_super().
Finally we can observe the following report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881243384e0 by task mount/719
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x115/0x16b
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
jffs2_do_fill_super+0x84f/0xc30
jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
mtd_get_sb+0x254/0x400
mtd_get_sb_by_nr+0x4f/0xd0
get_tree_mtd+0x498/0x840
jffs2_get_tree+0x25/0x30
vfs_get_tree+0x8d/0x2e0
path_moun
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |