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-2021-47249

Disclosure Date: May 21, 2024
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Description

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

net: rds: fix memory leak in rds_recvmsg

Syzbot reported memory leak in rds. The problem
was in unputted refcount in case of error.

int rds_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size,

	int msg_flags)

{

if (!rds_next_incoming(rs, &inc)) {
	...
}

After this “if” inc refcount incremented and

if (rds_cmsg_recv(inc, msg, rs)) {
	ret = -EFAULT;
	goto out;
}


out:

return ret;

}

in case of rds_cmsg_recv() fail the refcount won’t be
decremented. And it’s easy to see from ftrace log, that
rds_inc_addref() don’t have rds_inc_put() pair in
rds_recvmsg() after rds_cmsg_recv()

  1. | rds_recvmsg() {
  2. 3.721 us | rds_inc_addref();
  3. 3.853 us | rds_message_inc_copy_to_user();
  4. + 10.395 us | rds_cmsg_recv();
  5. + 34.260 us | }

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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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