# CVE-2021-47641: video: fbdev: cirrusfb: check pixclock to avoid divide by zero

> A local attacker can cause a kernel crash via divide-by-zero in the cirrusfb driver by providing a zero pixclock value.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 26 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47641, GHSA-3hf8-259h-577p, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47641

## What is CVE-2021-47641?

CVE-2021-47641 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

video: fbdev: cirrusfb: check pixclock to avoid divide by zero

Do a sanity check on pixclock value to avoid divide by zero.

If the pixclock value is zero, the cirrusfb driver will round up
pixclock to get the derived frequency as close to maxclock as
possible.

Syzkaller reported a divide error in cirrusfb_check_pixclock.

divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 14938 Comm: cirrusfb_test Not tainted 5.15.0-rc6 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2
RIP: 0010:cirrusfb_check_var+0x6f1/0x1260

Call Trace:
 fb_set_var+0x398/0xf90
 do_fb_ioctl+0x4b8/0x6f0
 fb_ioctl+0xeb/0x130
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x19d/0x220
 do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Weakness: CWE-369 (Divide By Zero)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-47641?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-47641?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2021-47641 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47641 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-47641 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-47641 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47641 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47641/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47641/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47641
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47641
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-47641

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