CVE-2021-4454 Affecting kernel-debug-core package, versions *
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- published1 Apr 2025
- disclosed27 Mar 2025
Introduced: 27 Mar 2025
NewCVE-2021-4454 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-debug-core.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug-core package and not the kernel-debug-core package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: j1939: fix errant WARN_ON_ONCE in j1939_session_deactivate
The conclusion "j1939_session_deactivate() should be called with a session ref-count of at least 2" is incorrect. In some concurrent scenarios, j1939_session_deactivate can be called with the session ref-count less than 2. But there is not any problem because it will check the session active state before session putting in j1939_session_deactivate_locked().
Here is the concurrent scenario of the problem reported by syzbot and my reproduction log.
cpu0 cpu1
j1939_xtp_rx_eoma
j1939_xtp_rx_abort_one j1939_session_get_by_addr [kref == 2] j1939_session_get_by_addr [kref == 3] j1939_session_deactivate [kref == 2] j1939_session_put [kref == 1] j1939_session_completed j1939_session_deactivate WARN_ON_ONCE(kref < 2)
===================================================== WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 21 at net/can/j1939/transport.c:1088 j1939_session_deactivate+0x5f/0x70 CPU: 1 PID: 21 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 5.14.0-rc7+ #32 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:j1939_session_deactivate+0x5f/0x70 Call Trace: j1939_session_deactivate_activate_next+0x11/0x28 j1939_xtp_rx_eoma+0x12a/0x180 j1939_tp_recv+0x4a2/0x510 j1939_can_recv+0x226/0x380 can_rcv_filter+0xf8/0x220 can_receive+0x102/0x220 ? process_backlog+0xf0/0x2c0 can_rcv+0x53/0xf0 __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x67/0x90 ? process_backlog+0x97/0x2c0 __netif_receive_skb+0x22/0x80
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4454
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1740a1e45eee65099a92fb502e1e67e63aad277d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6950df42a03c9ac9290503ced3f371199cb68fa9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ab896775f98ff54b68512f345eed178bf961084
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6d44072117bba057d50f7a2f96e5d070c65926d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0553680f94c49bbe0e39eb50d033ba563b4212d