Resource Leak Affecting kernel-tools package, versions *
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- published24 May 2024
- disclosed21 May 2024
Introduced: 21 May 2024
CVE-2021-47250 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:8 kernel-tools.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools package and not the kernel-tools package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ipv4: fix memory leak in netlbl_cipsov4_add_std
Reported by syzkaller: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888105df7000 (size 64): comm "syz-executor842", pid 360, jiffies 4294824824 (age 22.546s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000e67ed558>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:590 [inline] [<00000000e67ed558>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:720 [inline] [<00000000e67ed558>] netlbl_cipsov4_add_std net/netlabel/netlabel_cipso_v4.c:145 [inline] [<00000000e67ed558>] netlbl_cipsov4_add+0x390/0x2340 net/netlabel/netlabel_cipso_v4.c:416 [<0000000006040154>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x20e/0x320 net/netlink/genetlink.c:739 [<00000000204d7a1c>] genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:783 [inline] [<00000000204d7a1c>] genl_rcv_msg+0x2bf/0x4f0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:800 [<00000000c0d6a995>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x134/0x3d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2504 [<00000000d78b9d2c>] genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:811 [<000000009733081b>] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1314 [inline] [<000000009733081b>] netlink_unicast+0x4a0/0x6a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1340 [<00000000d5fd43b8>] netlink_sendmsg+0x789/0xc70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1929 [<000000000a2d1e40>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:654 [inline] [<000000000a2d1e40>] sock_sendmsg+0x139/0x170 net/socket.c:674 [<00000000321d1969>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x658/0x7d0 net/socket.c:2350 [<00000000964e16bc>] ___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x170 net/socket.c:2404 [<000000001615e288>] __sys_sendmsg+0xd3/0x190 net/socket.c:2433 [<000000004ee8b6a5>] do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [<00000000171c7cee>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
The memory of doi_def->map.std pointing is allocated in netlbl_cipsov4_add_std, but no place has freed it. It should be freed in cipso_v4_doi_free which frees the cipso DOI resource.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-47250
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/086e92b1d68c6338535f715aad173f8cf4bfbc8c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ffb460be3abac86f884a8c548bb02724ec370f4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/212166510582631994be4f4b3fe15e10a03c1dd4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/398a24447eb60f060c8994221cb5ae6caf355fa1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5340858147e3dc60913fb3dd0cbb758ec4a26e66
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6dcea66d3bb519b426282588f38e884e07893c1f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d612c3f3fae221e7ea736d196581c2217304bbbc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/deeeb65c6ee404f2d1fb80b38b2730645c0f4663