CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-47249

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-05-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-05-21
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: 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() { 1) 3.721 us | rds_inc_addref(); 1) 3.853 us | rds_message_inc_copy_to_user(); 1) + 10.395 us | rds_cmsg_recv(); 1) + 34.260 us | }

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.30 < 4.4.274) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.274) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.238) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.196) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.128) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.46) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.12.13) • linux linux kernel 5.13

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References