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BDU:2025-13695 (CVE-2021-47128)

Vulnerability from fstec – Published: 2025-11-05 – Updated: 2025-11-05 – View on bdu.fstec.ru Fixed

Title

Уязвимость функции bpf_base_func_proto() модуля kernel/bpf/helpers.c поддержки интерпретатора BPF ядра операционной системы Linux, позволяющая нарушителю вызвать отказ в обслуживании.

Summary

Уязвимость функции bpf_base_func_proto() модуля kernel/bpf/helpers.c поддержки интерпретатора BPF ядра операционной системы Linux связана с возникновением взаимной блокировки. Эксплуатация уязвимости может позволить нарушителю вызвать отказ в обслуживании.

Severity

4.3 (Medium) CVSS 2.0


                      
                        AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C

4.4 (Medium) CVSS 3.1


                      
                        CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Class

Code vulnerability

Status

Confirmed by the vendor

Exploitation

Resource exhaustion

Incidents

Being clarified

Remediation

Software update

CWE

CWE-833 - Зависание

Aliases

CVE-2021-47128

References

9 references

URL
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-47128
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff5039ec75c83d2ed5b781dc7733420ee8c985fc
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acc43fc6cf0d50612193813c5906a1ab9d433e1e
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024031512-CVE-2021-47128-bef7@gregkh/
https://git.kernel.org/linus/ff40e51043af63715ab413995ff46996ecf9583f
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47128
https://git.linuxtesting.ru/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lvc/linux-stable.git/commi…
https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.43
https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.12.10

Impacted products

1 product from 1 vendor

Vendors

Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения

Products

Linux

Versions

от 5.11 до 5.12.9 включительно (Linux), от 5.6 до 5.10.42 включительно (Linux)

Product types

Operating system

Platforms

Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Linux от 5.11 до 5.12.9 включительно, Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Linux от 5.6 до 5.10.42 включительно

Mitigations

В условиях отсутствия обновлений безопасности от производителя рекомендуется придерживаться "Рекомендаций по безопасной настройке операционных систем LINUX", изложенных в методическом документе ФСТЭК России, утверждённом 25 декабря 2022 года. Использование рекомендаций: Для Linux: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff5039ec75c83d2ed5b781dc7733420ee8c985fc https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acc43fc6cf0d50612193813c5906a1ab9d433e1e https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024031512-CVE-2021-47128-bef7@gregkh/ https://git.kernel.org/linus/ff40e51043af63715ab413995ff46996ecf9583f https://git.linuxtesting.ru/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lvc/linux-stable.git/commit/?h=v5.10.176-lvc1&id=ff5039ec75c83d2ed5b781dc7733420ee8c985fc https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.43 https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.12.10

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  "CVSS 2.0": "AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C",
  "CVSS 3.0": "AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
  "CVSS 4.0": null,
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  "\u0414\u0430\u0442\u0430 \u0432\u044b\u044f\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f": "02.06.2021",
  "\u0414\u0430\u0442\u0430 \u043f\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u043d\u0435\u0433\u043e \u043e\u0431\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f": "05.11.2025",
  "\u0414\u0430\u0442\u0430 \u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438": "05.11.2025",
  "\u0418\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0438\u0444\u0438\u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u0440": "BDU:2025-13695",
  "\u0418\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0438\u0444\u0438\u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u0440\u044b \u0434\u0440\u0443\u0433\u0438\u0445 \u0441\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u043c \u043e\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u0443\u044f\u0437\u0432\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438": "CVE-2021-47128",
  "\u0418\u043d\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0430\u0446\u0438\u044f \u043e\u0431 \u0443\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0438": "\u0423\u044f\u0437\u0432\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0443\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0435\u043d\u0430",
  "\u041a\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0441 \u0443\u044f\u0437\u0432\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438": "\u0423\u044f\u0437\u0432\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c \u043a\u043e\u0434\u0430",
  "\u041d\u0430\u0437\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u041f\u041e": "Linux",
  "\u041d\u0430\u0438\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u041e\u0421 \u0438 \u0442\u0438\u043f \u0430\u043f\u043f\u0430\u0440\u0430\u0442\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u043f\u043b\u0430\u0442\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u044b": "\u0421\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0441\u0432\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043c\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043e\u0431\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f Linux \u043e\u0442 5.11 \u0434\u043e 5.12.9 \u0432\u043a\u043b\u044e\u0447\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e , \u0421\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0441\u0432\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043c\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043e\u0431\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f Linux \u043e\u0442 5.6 \u0434\u043e 5.10.42 \u0432\u043a\u043b\u044e\u0447\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e ",
  "\u041d\u0430\u0438\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0443\u044f\u0437\u0432\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438": "\u0423\u044f\u0437\u0432\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0444\u0443\u043d\u043a\u0446\u0438\u0438 bpf_base_func_proto() \u043c\u043e\u0434\u0443\u043b\u044f kernel/bpf/helpers.c \u043f\u043e\u0434\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0436\u043a\u0438 \u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0442\u0430\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430 BPF \u044f\u0434\u0440\u0430 \u043e\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0441\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u043c\u044b Linux, \u043f\u043e\u0437\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044f\u044e\u0449\u0430\u044f \u043d\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0448\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044e \u0432\u044b\u0437\u0432\u0430\u0442\u044c \u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430\u0437 \u0432 \u043e\u0431\u0441\u043b\u0443\u0436\u0438\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0438.",
  "\u041d\u0430\u043b\u0438\u0447\u0438\u0435 \u044d\u043a\u0441\u043f\u043b\u043e\u0439\u0442\u0430": "\u0414\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0443\u0442\u043e\u0447\u043d\u044f\u044e\u0442\u0441\u044f",
  "\u041e\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u043e\u0448\u0438\u0431\u043a\u0438 CWE": "\u0417\u0430\u0432\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 (CWE-833)",
  "\u041e\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0443\u044f\u0437\u0432\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438": "\u0423\u044f\u0437\u0432\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0444\u0443\u043d\u043a\u0446\u0438\u0438 bpf_base_func_proto() \u043c\u043e\u0434\u0443\u043b\u044f kernel/bpf/helpers.c \u043f\u043e\u0434\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0436\u043a\u0438 \u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0442\u0430\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430 BPF \u044f\u0434\u0440\u0430 \u043e\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0441\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u043c\u044b Linux \u0441\u0432\u044f\u0437\u0430\u043d\u0430 \u0441 \u0432\u043e\u0437\u043d\u0438\u043a\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435\u043c \u0432\u0437\u0430\u0438\u043c\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0431\u043b\u043e\u043a\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0438. \u042d\u043a\u0441\u043f\u043b\u0443\u0430\u0442\u0430\u0446\u0438\u044f \u0443\u044f\u0437\u0432\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u043c\u043e\u0436\u0435\u0442 \u043f\u043e\u0437\u0432\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u044c \u043d\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0448\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044e \u0432\u044b\u0437\u0432\u0430\u0442\u044c \u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430\u0437 \u0432 \u043e\u0431\u0441\u043b\u0443\u0436\u0438\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0438.",
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  "\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0447\u0430\u044f \u0438\u043d\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0430\u0446\u0438\u044f": null,
  "\u0421\u0432\u044f\u0437\u044c \u0441 \u0438\u043d\u0446\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0430\u043c\u0438 \u0418\u0411": "\u0414\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0443\u0442\u043e\u0447\u043d\u044f\u044e\u0442\u0441\u044f",
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  "\u0421\u043f\u043e\u0441\u043e\u0431 \u0443\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f": "\u041e\u0431\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043c\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043e\u0431\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f",
  "\u0421\u043f\u043e\u0441\u043e\u0431 \u044d\u043a\u0441\u043f\u043b\u0443\u0430\u0442\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438": "\u0418\u0441\u0447\u0435\u0440\u043f\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0440\u0435\u0441\u0443\u0440\u0441\u043e\u0432",
  "\u0421\u0441\u044b\u043b\u043a\u0438 \u043d\u0430 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0447\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0438": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-47128\nhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff5039ec75c83d2ed5b781dc7733420ee8c985fc\nhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acc43fc6cf0d50612193813c5906a1ab9d433e1e\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024031512-CVE-2021-47128-bef7@gregkh/\nhttps://git.kernel.org/linus/ff40e51043af63715ab413995ff46996ecf9583f\nhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47128\nhttps://git.linuxtesting.ru/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lvc/linux-stable.git/commit/?h=v5.10.176-lvc1\u0026id=ff5039ec75c83d2ed5b781dc7733420ee8c985fc\nhttps://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.43\nhttps://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.12.10",
  "\u0421\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0441 \u0443\u044f\u0437\u0432\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438": "\u041f\u043e\u0434\u0442\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0436\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0430 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0438\u0437\u0432\u043e\u0434\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043c",
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CVE-2021-47128 (GCVE-0-2021-47128)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-15 20:14 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:48

Title

bpf, lockdown, audit: Fix buggy SELinux lockdown permission checks

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, lockdown, audit: Fix buggy SELinux lockdown permission checks Commit 59438b46471a ("security,lockdown,selinux: implement SELinux lockdown") added an implementation of the locked_down LSM hook to SELinux, with the aim to restrict which domains are allowed to perform operations that would breach lockdown. This is indirectly also getting audit subsystem involved to report events. The latter is problematic, as reported by Ondrej and Serhei, since it can bring down the whole system via audit: 1) The audit events that are triggered due to calls to security_locked_down() can OOM kill a machine, see below details [0]. 2) It also seems to be causing a deadlock via avc_has_perm()/slow_avc_audit() when trying to wake up kauditd, for example, when using trace_sched_switch() tracepoint, see details in [1]. Triggering this was not via some hypothetical corner case, but with existing tools like runqlat & runqslower from bcc, for example, which make use of this tracepoint. Rough call sequence goes like: rq_lock(rq) -> -------------------------+ trace_sched_switch() -> | bpf_prog_xyz() -> +-> deadlock selinux_lockdown() -> | audit_log_end() -> | wake_up_interruptible() -> | try_to_wake_up() -> | rq_lock(rq) --------------+ What's worse is that the intention of 59438b46471a to further restrict lockdown settings for specific applications in respect to the global lockdown policy is completely broken for BPF. The SELinux policy rule for the current lockdown check looks something like this: allow <who> <who> : lockdown { <reason> }; However, this doesn't match with the 'current' task where the security_locked_down() is executed, example: httpd does a syscall. There is a tracing program attached to the syscall which triggers a BPF program to run, which ends up doing a bpf_probe_read_kernel{,_str}() helper call. The selinux_lockdown() hook does the permission check against 'current', that is, httpd in this example. httpd has literally zero relation to this tracing program, and it would be nonsensical having to write an SELinux policy rule against httpd to let the tracing helper pass. The policy in this case needs to be against the entity that is installing the BPF program. For example, if bpftrace would generate a histogram of syscall counts by user space application: bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count(); }' bpftrace would then go and generate a BPF program from this internally. One way of doing it [for the sake of the example] could be to call bpf_get_current_task() helper and then access current->comm via one of bpf_probe_read_kernel{,_str}() helpers. So the program itself has nothing to do with httpd or any other random app doing a syscall here. The BPF program _explicitly initiated_ the lockdown check. The allow/deny policy belongs in the context of bpftrace: meaning, you want to grant bpftrace access to use these helpers, but other tracers on the system like my_random_tracer _not_. Therefore fix all three issues at the same time by taking a completely different approach for the security_locked_down() hook, that is, move the check into the program verification phase where we actually retrieve the BPF func proto. This also reliably gets the task (current) that is trying to install the BPF tracing program, e.g. bpftrace/bcc/perf/systemtap/etc, and it also fixes the OOM since we're moving this out of the BPF helper's fast-path which can be called several millions of times per second. The check is then also in line with other security_locked_down() hooks in the system where the enforcement is performed at open/load time, for example, open_kcore() for /proc/kcore access or module_sig_check() for module signatures just to pick f ---truncated---

Severity

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SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-03-18 18:49 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root Scorecard

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff5039ec75c83d2ed…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acc43fc6cf0d50612…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff40e51043af63715…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 59438b46471ae6cdfb761afc8c9beaf1e428a331 , < ff5039ec75c83d2ed5b781dc7733420ee8c985fc (git) Affected: 59438b46471ae6cdfb761afc8c9beaf1e428a331 , < acc43fc6cf0d50612193813c5906a1ab9d433e1e (git) Affected: 59438b46471ae6cdfb761afc8c9beaf1e428a331 , < ff40e51043af63715ab413995ff46996ecf9583f (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.6 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.43 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.12.10 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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