What is CVE-2021-47432?

CVE-2021-47432 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-05-21.

How severe is CVE-2021-47432?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Linux

CVE-2021-47432

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Don't overflow in peek() When we started spreading new inode numbers throughout most of the 64 bit inode space, that triggered some corner case bugs, in particular some integer overflows related to the radix tree code. Oops.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

EPSS: 0.002 (15.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions ba20ba2e3743bac786dff777954c11930256075e, 5.1, 0
Linux Linux_kernel

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-47432?: CVE-2021-47432 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-05-21.
How severe is CVE-2021-47432?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.