Use After Free Affecting kernel-rt-debug-modules package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELRTDEBUGMODULES-6450648
  • published17 Mar 2024
  • disclosed15 Mar 2024

Introduced: 15 Mar 2024

CVE-2021-47130  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-rt-debug-modules.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-modules package and not the kernel-rt-debug-modules package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

nvmet: fix freeing unallocated p2pmem

In case p2p device was found but the p2p pool is empty, the nvme target is still trying to free the sgl from the p2p pool instead of the regular sgl pool and causing a crash (BUG() is called). Instead, assign the p2p_dev for the request only if it was allocated from p2p pool.

This is the crash that was caused:

[Sun May 30 19:13:53 2021] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [Sun May 30 19:13:53 2021] kernel BUG at lib/genalloc.c:518! [Sun May 30 19:13:53 2021] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI ... [Sun May 30 19:13:53 2021] kernel BUG at lib/genalloc.c:518! ... [Sun May 30 19:13:53 2021] RIP: 0010:gen_pool_free_owner+0xa8/0xb0 ... [Sun May 30 19:13:53 2021] Call Trace: [Sun May 30 19:13:53 2021] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [Sun May 30 19:13:53 2021] pci_free_p2pmem+0x2b/0x70 [Sun May 30 19:13:53 2021] pci_p2pmem_free_sgl+0x4f/0x80 [Sun May 30 19:13:53 2021] nvmet_req_free_sgls+0x1e/0x80 [nvmet] [Sun May 30 19:13:53 2021] kernel BUG at lib/genalloc.c:518! [Sun May 30 19:13:53 2021] nvmet_rdma_release_rsp+0x4e/0x1f0 [nvmet_rdma] [Sun May 30 19:13:53 2021] nvmet_rdma_send_done+0x1c/0x60 [nvmet_rdma]

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