TCP stream corruption via nested page-fragment reuse
Published May 24, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Memory corruption in the Linux kernel allows remote attackers to corrupt TCP streams through a page fault in an mmap-backed send buffer. When tcp_sendmsg_locked faults while copying the mapped buffer, the fault handler performs an SMB transaction on another socket in the same process context; that nested allocation silently replaces the task page fragment still used by the outer send operation. The demonstrated gate is an HTTP server sending an mmap-backed file from a CIFS mount; public records establish corrupted outbound data but not code execution or persistent file modification.
Summary
What happened
Memory corruption in the Linux kernel allows remote attackers to corrupt TCP streams through a page fault in an mmap-backed send buffer. When tcp_sendmsg_locked faults while copying the mapped buffer, the fault handler performs an SMB transaction on another socket in the same process context; that nested allocation silently replaces the task page fragment still used by the outer send operation. The demonstrated gate is an HTTP server sending an mmap-backed file from a CIFS mount; public records establish corrupted outbound data but not code execution or persistent file modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-47544
- Published
- May 24, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- Unavailable
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- May 24, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=3.7
- Affected versionversion=5640f7685831e088fe6c2e1f863a6805962f8e81 <5a9afcd827cafe14a95c9fcbded2c2d104f18dfc
- Affected versionversion=5640f7685831e088fe6c2e1f863a6805962f8e81 <c6f340a331fb72e5ac23a083de9c780e132ca3ae
- Affected versionversion=5640f7685831e088fe6c2e1f863a6805962f8e81 <dacb5d8875cc6cd3a553363b4d6f06760fcbe70c
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