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CVE-2021-29648
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2021-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-307
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.11. The BPF subsystem does not properly consider that resolved_ids and resolved_sizes are intentionally uninitialized in the vmlinux BPF Type Format (BTF), which can cause a system crash upon an unexpected access attempt (in map_create in kernel/bpf/syscall.c or check_btf_info in kernel/bpf/verifier.c), aka CID-350a5c4dd245.
Affected products
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33, 34
- Linux kernel: before 5.11.11 — fixed in 5.11.11
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.11.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.11.11
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=350a5c4dd2452ea999cc5e1d4a8dbf12de2f97ef
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RZGMUP6QEHJJEKPMLKOSPWYMW7PXFC2M/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VTADK5ELGTATGW2RK3K5MBJ2WGYCPZCM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WKRNELXLVFDY6Y5XDMWLIH3VKIMQXLLR/
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.11.11
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=350a5c4dd2452ea999cc5e1d4a8dbf12de2f97ef
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RZGMUP6QEHJJEKPMLKOSPWYMW7PXFC2M/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VTADK5ELGTATGW2RK3K5MBJ2WGYCPZCM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WKRNELXLVFDY6Y5XDMWLIH3VKIMQXLLR/
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