5.5

CVE-2021-46924

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

NFC: st21nfca: Fix memory leak in device probe and remove

'phy->pending_skb' is alloced when device probe, but forgot to free
in the error handling path and remove path, this cause memory leak
as follows:

unreferenced object 0xffff88800bc06800 (size 512):
  comm "8", pid 11775, jiffies 4295159829 (age 9.032s)
  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:
    [<00000000d66c09ce>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x1ed/0x450
    [<00000000c93382b3>] kmalloc_reserve+0x37/0xd0
    [<000000005fea522c>] __alloc_skb+0x124/0x380
    [<0000000019f29f9a>] st21nfca_hci_i2c_probe+0x170/0x8f2

Fix it by freeing 'pending_skb' in error and remove.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 3.16.0 < 4.14.261
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 4.15.0 < 4.19.224
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 4.20.0 < 5.4.170
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.5.0 < 5.10.90
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11.0 < 5.15.13
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.01% 0.012
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.