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Uncontrolled Memory Allocation Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDOC-6329437
  • published 29 Feb 2024
  • disclosed 28 Feb 2024
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Introduced: 28 Feb 2024

CVE-2021-47007 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-789 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 kernel-doc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

f2fs: fix panic during f2fs_resize_fs()

f2fs_resize_fs() hangs in below callstack with testcase:

  • mkfs 16GB image & mount image
  • dd 8GB fileA
  • dd 8GB fileB
  • sync
  • rm fileA
  • sync
  • resize filesystem to 8GB

kernel BUG at segment.c:2484! Call Trace: allocate_segment_by_default+0x92/0xf0 [f2fs] f2fs_allocate_data_block+0x44b/0x7e0 [f2fs] do_write_page+0x5a/0x110 [f2fs] f2fs_outplace_write_data+0x55/0x100 [f2fs] f2fs_do_write_data_page+0x392/0x850 [f2fs] move_data_page+0x233/0x320 [f2fs] do_garbage_collect+0x14d9/0x1660 [f2fs] free_segment_range+0x1f7/0x310 [f2fs] f2fs_resize_fs+0x118/0x330 [f2fs] __f2fs_ioctl+0x487/0x3680 [f2fs] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8e/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

The root cause is we forgot to check that whether we have enough space in resized filesystem to store all valid blocks in before-resizing filesystem, then allocator will run out-of-space during block migration in free_segment_range().

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

5.5 medium
  • 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