{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47656","details":"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:  ==================================================================  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_mount+0x50f/0x1e50   do_mount+0x107/0x130   __se_sys_mount+0x1c5/0x2f0   __x64_sys_mount+0xc7/0x160   do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9   Allocated by task 719:   kasan_save_stack+0x23/0x60   __kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0x10b/0x120   kasan_slab_alloc+0x12/0x20   kmem_cache_alloc+0x1c0/0x870   jffs2_alloc_xattr_ref+0x2f/0xa0   jffs2_scan_medium.cold+0x3713/0x4794   jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0xa7/0x2253   jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30   jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0  [...]   Freed by task 719:   kmem_cache_free+0xcc/0x7b0   jffs2_free_xattr_ref+0x78/0x98   jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0xa1/0x6ac   jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0x5e6/0x2253   jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30   jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0  [...]   The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881243384b8   which belongs to the cache jffs2_xattr_ref of size 48  The buggy address is located 40 bytes inside of   48-byte region [ffff8881243384b8, ffff8881243384e8)  [...]  ==================================================================  The triggering of the BUG is shown in the following stack: ----------------------------------------------------------- jffs2_fill_super   jffs2_do_fill_super     jffs2_do_mount_fs       jffs2_build_filesystem         jffs2_scan_medium           jffs2_scan_eraseblock        \u003c--- ERROR         jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem    \u003c--- free     jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem        \u003c--- free again -----------------------------------------------------------  An error is returned in jffs2_do_mount_fs(). If the error is returned by jffs2_sum_init(), the jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() does not need to be executed. If the error is returned by jffs2_build_filesystem(), the jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() also does not need to be executed again. So move jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() from 'out_inohash' to 'out_root' to fix this UAF problem.","modified":"2026-09-15T09:02:32.096605890Z","published":"2025-02-26T06:37:07.360Z","upstream":["CVE-2021-47656"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-47656"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.17.3-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47656.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.17.3-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47656.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.17.3-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47656.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}