CVE-2021-46968

2024-02-2719:04:07

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

web.nvd.nist.gov

2487

cve-2021-46968

linux kernel

s390

zcrypt

memleak fix

vulnerability

security

nvd

cve

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

JSON

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

s390/zcrypt: fix zcard and zqueue hot-unplug memleak

Tests with kvm and a kmemdebug kernel showed, that on hot unplug the
zcard and zqueue structs for the unplugged card or queue are not
properly freed because of a mismatch with get/put for the embedded
kref counter.

This fix now adjusts the handling of the kref counters. With init the
kref counter starts with 1. This initial value needs to drop to zero
with the unregister of the card or queue to trigger the release and
free the object.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.10–5.10.36

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.11.0–5.11.20

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.12.0–5.12.3

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.13.0≥

VendorProductVersionCPE
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

CNA Affected

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  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_card.c",
      "drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_queue.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "29c2680fd2bf",
        "lessThan": "026499a9c2e0",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "29c2680fd2bf",
        "lessThan": "055a063a18bc",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "29c2680fd2bf",
        "lessThan": "971dc8706cee",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "29c2680fd2bf",
        "lessThan": "70fac8088cfa",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_card.c",
      "drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_queue.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "5.10",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "5.10",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.10.36",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.11.20",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.11.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.12.3",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.12.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.13",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]