vsock/virtio: free queued packets when closing socket (Linux Linux)

CVE-2021-47024
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.25 % · percentile 16 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: free queued packets when closing socket As reported by syzbot [1], there is a memory leak while closing the socket. We partially solved this issue with commit ac03046ece2b ("vsock/virtio: free packets during the socket release"), but we forgot to drain the RX queue when the socket is definitely closed by the scheduled work. To avoid future issues, let's use the new virtio_transport_remove_sock() to drain the RX queue before removing the socket from the af_vsock lists calling vsock_remove_sock(). [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=24452624fc4c571eedd9

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 ac03046ece2b158ebd204dfc4896fd9f39f0e6c8 < b605673b523fe33abeafb2136759bcbc9c1e6ebf ; affected ac03046ece2b158ebd204dfc4896fd9f39f0e6c8 < 27691665145e74a45034a9dccf1150cf1894763a ; affected ac03046ece2b158ebd204dfc4896fd9f39f0e6c8 < 37c38674ef2f8d7e8629e5d433c37d6c1273d16b ; affected ac03046ece2b158ebd204dfc4896fd9f39f0e6c8 < 8432b8114957235f42e070a16118a7f750de9d39 ; affected 4ea082cd3c400cd5bb36a7beb7e441bf3e29350d ; affected 4e539fa2dec4db3405e47002f2878aa4a99eb68b
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.2 ; unaffected 0 < 5.2 ; unaffected 5.10.37 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.11.21 ≤ 5.11.* ; unaffected 5.12.4 ≤ 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