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CVE-2021-46956

Disclosure Date: February 27, 2024 •
CVE-2021-46956 CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5
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Description

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

virtiofs: fix memory leak in virtio_fs_probe()

When accidentally passing twice the same tag to qemu, kmemleak ended up
reporting a memory leak in virtiofs. Also, looking at the log I saw the
following error (that’s when I realised the duplicated tag):

virtiofs: probe of virtio5 failed with error -17

Here’s the kmemleak log for reference:

unreferenced object 0xffff888103d47800 (size 1024):
comm “systemd-udevd”, pid 118, jiffies 4294893780 (age 18.340s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):

00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 80 90 02 a0 ff ff ff ff  ................

backtrace:

[<000000000ebb87c1>] virtio_fs_probe+0x171/0x7ae [virtiofs]
[<00000000f8aca419>] virtio_dev_probe+0x15f/0x210
[<000000004d6baf3c>] really_probe+0xea/0x430
[<00000000a6ceeac8>] device_driver_attach+0xa8/0xb0
[<00000000196f47a7>] __driver_attach+0x98/0x140
[<000000000b20601d>] bus_for_each_dev+0x7b/0xc0
[<00000000399c7b7f>] bus_add_driver+0x11b/0x1f0
[<0000000032b09ba7>] driver_register+0x8f/0xe0
[<00000000cdd55998>] 0xffffffffa002c013
[<000000000ea196a2>] do_one_initcall+0x64/0x2e0
[<0000000008f727ce>] do_init_module+0x5c/0x260
[<000000003cdedab6>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xb5/0x120
[<00000000ad2f48c6>] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
[<00000000809526b5>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Offensive Application
Unknown
Utility Class
Unknown
Ports
Unknown
OS
Unknown
Vulnerable Versions
Linux 310efc95c72c
Linux not down converted
Prerequisites
Unknown
Discovered By
Unknown
PoC Author
Unknown
Metasploit Module
Unknown
Reporter
Unknown

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel
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