5.5

CVE-2021-47455

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

ptp: Fix possible memory leak in ptp_clock_register()

I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:

unreferenced object 0xffff88800906c618 (size 8):
  comm "i2c-idt82p33931", pid 4421, jiffies 4294948083 (age 13.188s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    70 74 70 30 00 00 00 00                          ptp0....
  backtrace:
    [<00000000312ed458>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x19f/0x3a0
    [<0000000079f6e2ff>] kvasprintf+0xb5/0x150
    [<0000000026aae54f>] kvasprintf_const+0x60/0x190
    [<00000000f323a5f7>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150
    [<000000004e35abdd>] dev_set_name+0xc0/0x100
    [<00000000f20cfe25>] ptp_clock_register+0x9f4/0xd30 [ptp]
    [<000000008bb9f0de>] idt82p33_probe.cold+0x8b6/0x1561 [ptp_idt82p33]

When posix_clock_register() returns an error, the name allocated
in dev_set_name() will be leaked, the put_device() should be used
to give up the device reference, then the name will be freed in
kobject_cleanup() and other memory will be freed in ptp_clock_release().
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 3.16.83 < 3.17
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 4.4.224 < 4.5
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 4.9.224 < 4.10
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 4.14.162 < 4.15
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 4.19.93 < 4.20
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.4.8 < 5.14.15
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.15 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.15 Updaterc2
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.15 Updaterc3
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.15 Updaterc4
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.15 Updaterc5
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.15 Updaterc6
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.02% 0.041
CVSS Metriken
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: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.