CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-47024

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-02-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-02-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: free queued packets when closing socket As reported by syzbot [1], there is a memory leak while closing the socket. We partially solved this issue with commit ac03046ece2b ("vsock/virtio: free packets during the socket release"), but we forgot to drain the RX queue when the socket is definitely closed by the scheduled work. To avoid future issues, let's use the new virtio_transport_remove_sock() to drain the RX queue before removing the socket from the af_vsock lists calling vsock_remove_sock(). [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=24452624fc4c571eedd9

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.2 < 5.10.37) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.11.21) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.12 < 5.12.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References