5.5
CVE-2021-46935
- EPSS 0.02%
 - Published 27.02.2024 10:15:07
 - Last modified 21.11.2024 06:34:58
 - Source 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081f
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 - Open
 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
binder: fix async_free_space accounting for empty parcels
In 4.13, commit 74310e06be4d ("android: binder: Move buffer out of area shared with user space")
fixed a kernel structure visibility issue. As part of that patch,
sizeof(void *) was used as the buffer size for 0-length data payloads so
the driver could detect abusive clients sending 0-length asynchronous
transactions to a server by enforcing limits on async_free_size.
Unfortunately, on the "free" side, the accounting of async_free_space
did not add the sizeof(void *) back. The result was that up to 8-bytes of
async_free_space were leaked on every async transaction of 8-bytes or
less.  These small transactions are uncommon, so this accounting issue
has gone undetected for several years.
The fix is to use "buffer_size" (the allocated buffer size) instead of
"size" (the logical buffer size) when updating the async_free_space
during the free operation. These are the same except for this
corner case of asynchronous transactions with payloads < 8 bytes.Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
	Linux ≫ Linux Kernel  Version >= 4.14.0 < 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
| Type | Source | Score | Percentile | 
|---|---|---|---|
| EPSS | FIRST.org | 0.02% | 0.022 | 
| Source | 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:H/I:N/A:N  
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CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
The product exposes a resource to the wrong control sphere, providing unintended actors with inappropriate access to the resource.