CVE-2021-46924

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e553265ea56482da5700f56319fda9ff53e7dcb4

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1e0080a35a16ce3808f7040fe0c3a8fdb052349

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38c3e320e7ff46f2dc67bc5045333e63d9f8918d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/238920381b8925d070d32d73cd9ce52ab29896fe

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cd4063dbc91cf7965d73a6a3855e2028cd4613b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b9dadba502234eea7244879b8d5d126bfaf9f0c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-02-27

Updated: 2024-04-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium