afs: Fix page leak (Linux Linux)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.21 % · percentile 11 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- Linux
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix page leak There's a loop in afs_extend_writeback() that adds extra pages to a write we want to make to improve the efficiency of the writeback by making it larger. This loop stops, however, if we hit a page we can't write back from immediately, but it doesn't get rid of the page ref we speculatively acquired. This was caused by the removal of the cleanup loop when the code switched from using find_get_pages_contig() to xarray scanning as the latter only gets a single page at a time, not a batch. Fix this by putting the page on a ref on an early break from the loop. Unfortunately, we can't just add that page to the pagevec we're employing as we'll go through that and add those pages to the RPC call. This was found by the generic/074 test. It leaks ~4GiB of RAM each time it is run - which can be observed with "top".
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-459 — Incomplete Cleanup
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2021-34370
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2021-47365
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-1057 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0088 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0526 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0496 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 5.13 < 5.14.9cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.14.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux · Linux | affected e87b03f5830ecd8ca21836d3ee48c74f8d58fa31 < d130b5fdd42254d92948d06347940276140c927e ; affected e87b03f5830ecd8ca21836d3ee48c74f8d58fa31 < 581b2027af0018944ba301d68e7af45c6d1128b5 |
| Linux · Linux | affected 5.13 ; unaffected 0 < 5.13 ; unaffected 5.14.9 ≤ 5.14.* ; unaffected 5.15 ≤ * |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |