CVE-2021-47180

EPSS 0.01%
Published 25.03.2024 10:15:09
Last modified 07.01.2025 17:17:24
Source 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081f
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFC: nci: fix memory leak in nci_allocate_device

nfcmrvl_disconnect fails to free the hci_dev field in struct nci_dev.
Fix this by freeing hci_dev in nci_free_device.

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888111ea6800 (size 1024):
  comm "kworker/1:0", pid 19, jiffies 4294942308 (age 13.580s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 60 fd 0c 81 88 ff ff  .........`......
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<000000004bc25d43>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:552 [inline]
    [<000000004bc25d43>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:682 [inline]
    [<000000004bc25d43>] nci_hci_allocate+0x21/0xd0 net/nfc/nci/hci.c:784
    [<00000000c59cff92>] nci_allocate_device net/nfc/nci/core.c:1170 [inline]
    [<00000000c59cff92>] nci_allocate_device+0x10b/0x160 net/nfc/nci/core.c:1132
    [<00000000006e0a8e>] nfcmrvl_nci_register_dev+0x10a/0x1c0 drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/main.c:153
    [<000000004da1b57e>] nfcmrvl_probe+0x223/0x290 drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/usb.c:345
    [<00000000d506aed9>] usb_probe_interface+0x177/0x370 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
    [<00000000bc632c92>] really_probe+0x159/0x4a0 drivers/base/dd.c:554
    [<00000000f5009125>] driver_probe_device+0x84/0x100 drivers/base/dd.c:740
    [<000000000ce658ca>] __device_attach_driver+0xee/0x110 drivers/base/dd.c:846
    [<000000007067d05f>] bus_for_each_drv+0xb7/0x100 drivers/base/bus.c:431
    [<00000000f8e13372>] __device_attach+0x122/0x250 drivers/base/dd.c:914
    [<000000009cf68860>] bus_probe_device+0xc6/0xe0 drivers/base/bus.c:491
    [<00000000359c965a>] device_add+0x5be/0xc30 drivers/base/core.c:3109
    [<00000000086e4bd3>] usb_set_configuration+0x9d9/0xb90 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2164
    [<00000000ca036872>] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8c/0xc0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
    [<00000000d40d36f6>] usb_probe_device+0x5c/0x140 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
    [<00000000bc632c92>] really_probe+0x159/0x4a0 drivers/base/dd.c:554