CVE-2021-47163

2024-03-2510:15:08

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

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linux kernel

tipc module

vulnerability

kernel crash

fix

work queues

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

JSON

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

tipc: wait and exit until all work queues are done

On some host, a crash could be triggered simply by repeating these
commands several times:

modprobe tipc

tipc bearer enable media udp name UDP1 localip 127.0.0.1

rmmod tipc

[] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffc096bb00
[] Workqueue: events 0xffffffffc096bb00
[] Call Trace:
[] ? process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
[] ? worker_thread+0x30/0x390
[] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
[] ? kthread+0x116/0x130
[] ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
[] ? ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

When removing the TIPC module, the UDP tunnel sock will be delayed to
release in a work queue as sock_release() can’t be done in rtnl_lock().
If the work queue is schedule to run after the TIPC module is removed,
kernel will crash as the work queue function cleanup_beareri() code no
longer exists when trying to invoke it.

To fix it, this patch introduce a member wq_count in tipc_net to track
the numbers of work queues in schedule, and wait and exit until all
work queues are done in tipc_exit_net().

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange4.1–5.4.124

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.5.0–5.10.42

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.11.0–5.12.9

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": [
      "net/tipc/core.c",
      "net/tipc/core.h",
      "net/tipc/udp_media.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "d0f91938bede",
        "lessThan": "d1f76dfadaf8",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "d0f91938bede",
        "lessThan": "5195ec5e365a",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "d0f91938bede",
        "lessThan": "b9f5b7ad4ac3",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "d0f91938bede",
        "lessThan": "04c26faa51d1",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "net/tipc/core.c",
      "net/tipc/core.h",
      "net/tipc/udp_media.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "4.1",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "4.1",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.4.124",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.4.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.10.42",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.12.9",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.12.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.13",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]