afs: Fix page leak (Linux Linux)

CVE-2021-47365
MEDIUM 5.5

En bref

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.21 % · centile 11 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
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Linux
Statut NVD
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".

Faiblesses (CWE)

  • CWE-459 — Nettoyage incomplet

Références

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
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)

Références européennes

Avis du CERT-FR

Configurations affectées (CPE NVD)

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected e87b03f5830ecd8ca21836d3ee48c74f8d58fa31 < d130b5fdd42254d92948d06347940276140c927e ; affected e87b03f5830ecd8ca21836d3ee48c74f8d58fa31 < 581b2027af0018944ba301d68e7af45c6d1128b5
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.13 ; unaffected 0 < 5.13 ; unaffected 5.14.9 ≤ 5.14.* ; unaffected 5.15 ≤ *

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
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