cve-2021-47566
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-24 15:12
Modified
2024-11-04 12:08
Severity ?
Summary
proc/vmcore: fix clearing user buffer by properly using clear_user()
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33a7d698f30fa0b99d50569e9909d3baa65d8f6a
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b3a34f08d11e7f05cd00b8e09adaa15192f0ad1
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99d348b82bcb36171f24411d3f1a15706a2a937a
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ef384ed300d1bcfb23d0ab0b487d544444d4b52
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8a917058faf4abaec9fb614bb6d5f8fe3529ec6
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9e164bd160be8cbee1df70acb379129e3cd2e7c
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1e63117711977cc4295b2ce73de29dd17066c82
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd7974c547abfb03072a4ee706d3a6f182266f89
Impacted products
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