Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
Unknown
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User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
Local
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CVE-2024-53118

Disclosure Date: December 02, 2024
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Description

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

vsock: Fix sk_error_queue memory leak

Kernel queues MSG_ZEROCOPY completion notifications on the error queue.
Where they remain, until explicitly recv()ed. To prevent memory leaks,
clean up the queue when the socket is destroyed.

unreferenced object 0xffff8881028beb00 (size 224):
comm “vsock_test”, pid 1218, jiffies 4294694897
hex dump (first 32 bytes):

90 b0 21 17 81 88 ff ff 90 b0 21 17 81 88 ff ff  ..!.......!.....
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b0 21 17 81 88 ff ff  ..........!.....

backtrace (crc 6c7031ca):

[<ffffffff81418ef7>] kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x2f7/0x370
[<ffffffff81d35882>] __alloc_skb+0x132/0x180
[<ffffffff81d2d32b>] sock_omalloc+0x4b/0x80
[<ffffffff81d3a8ae>] msg_zerocopy_realloc+0x9e/0x240
[<ffffffff81fe5cb2>] virtio_transport_send_pkt_info+0x412/0x4c0
[<ffffffff81fe6183>] virtio_transport_stream_enqueue+0x43/0x50
[<ffffffff81fe0813>] vsock_connectible_sendmsg+0x373/0x450
[<ffffffff81d233d5>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x365/0x3a0
[<ffffffff81d246f4>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x84/0xd0
[<ffffffff81d26f47>] __sys_sendmsg+0x47/0x80
[<ffffffff820d3df3>] do_syscall_64+0x93/0x180
[<ffffffff8220012b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

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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

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