Use After Free Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDOC-6456606
- published 17 Mar 2024
- disclosed 15 Mar 2024
Introduced: 15 Mar 2024
CVE-2021-47111 Open this link in a new tabHow 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:
xen-netback: take a reference to the RX task thread
Do this in order to prevent the task from being freed if the thread returns (which can be triggered by the frontend) before the call to kthread_stop done as part of the backend tear down. Not taking the reference will lead to a use-after-free in that scenario. Such reference was taken before but dropped as part of the rework done in 2ac061ce97f4.
Reintroduce the reference taking and add a comment this time explaining why it's needed.
This is XSA-374 / CVE-2021-28691.