CVE-2021-45095

medium

Description

pep_sock_accept in net/phonet/pep.c in the Linux kernel through 5.15.8 has a refcount leak.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5050

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00011.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bcd0f93353326954817a4f9fa55ec57fb38acbb0

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=bcd0f93353326954817a4f9fa55ec57fb38acbb0

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-12-16

Updated: 2022-04-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium