Linux · Linux Kernel · CVE-2021-46993
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
**Description**
The issue is related to an out-of-bound access in the uclamp component of the Linux kernel. Util-clamp places tasks in different buckets based on their clamp values for performance reasons. However, the size of buckets is currently computed using a rounding division, which can lead to an off-by-one error in some configurations. For instance, with 20 buckets, the bucket size will be 1024/20=51. A task with a clamp of 1024 will be mapped to bucket id 1024/51=20. Sadly, correct indexes are in range [0,19], hence leading to an out of bound memory access. The issue can be fixed by clamping the bucket id.
**Recommendations**
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.