s390/zcrypt: fix zcard and zqueue hot-unplug memleak (Linux Linux)

CVE-2021-46968
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.22 % · percentile 13 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/zcrypt: fix zcard and zqueue hot-unplug memleak Tests with kvm and a kmemdebug kernel showed, that on hot unplug the zcard and zqueue structs for the unplugged card or queue are not properly freed because of a mismatch with get/put for the embedded kref counter. This fix now adjusts the handling of the kref counters. With init the kref counter starts with 1. This initial value needs to drop to zero with the unregister of the card or queue to trigger the release and free the object.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 29c2680fd2bf3862ff5cf2957f198512493156f9 < 026499a9c2e002e621ad568d1378324ae97e5524 ; affected 29c2680fd2bf3862ff5cf2957f198512493156f9 < 055a063a18bcd19b93709e3eac8078d6b2f04599 ; affected 29c2680fd2bf3862ff5cf2957f198512493156f9 < 971dc8706cee47393d393905d294ea47e39503d3 ; affected 29c2680fd2bf3862ff5cf2957f198512493156f9 < 70fac8088cfad9f3b379c9082832b4d7532c16c2
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.10 ; unaffected 0 < 5.10 ; unaffected 5.10.36 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.11.20 ≤ 5.11.* ; unaffected 5.12.3 ≤ 5.12.* ; unaffected 5.13 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD