In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix read abandonment during retry Under certain circumstances, all the remaining subrequests from a read request will get abandoned during retry. The abandonment process expects the 'subreq' variable to be set to the place to start abandonment from, but it doesn't always have a useful value (it will be uninitialised on the first pass through the loop and it may point to a deleted subrequest on later passes). Fix the first jump to "abandon:" to set subreq to the start of the first subrequest expected to need retry (which, in this abandonment case, turned out unexpectedly to no longer have NEED_RETRY set). Also clear the subreq pointer after discarding superfluous retryable subrequests to cause an oops if we do try to access it.
| Version | Score | Severity | Vector String |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 8.8 | High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Product | Vendor | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 8.0.1.3 |
| Linux | Linux | 8.0.1.4 |
| Linux | Linux | and CompactLogix 1768-EWEB Version 2.005 and earlier. |
| Linux | Linux | < 21.0 |