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nvd416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67NVD:CVE-2021-47482
HistoryMay 22, 2024 - 9:15 a.m.

CVE-2021-47482

2024-05-2209:15:10
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
web.nvd.nist.gov
linux
kernel
batman-adv
vulnerability
fix
error handling
syzbot
odebug
warning
bug
performance.

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.1%

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

net: batman-adv: fix error handling

Syzbot reported ODEBUG warning in batadv_nc_mesh_free(). The problem was
in wrong error handling in batadv_mesh_init().

Before this patch batadv_mesh_init() was calling batadv_mesh_free() in case
of any batadv_*_init() calls failure. This approach may work well, when
there is some kind of indicator, which can tell which parts of batadv are
initialized; but there isn’t any.

All written above lead to cleaning up uninitialized fields. Even if we hide
ODEBUG warning by initializing bat_priv->nc.work, syzbot was able to hit
GPF in batadv_nc_purge_paths(), because hash pointer in still NULL. [1]

To fix these bugs we can unwind batadv_init() calls one by one.
It is good approach for 2 reasons: 1) It fixes bugs on error handling
path 2) It improves the performance, since we won’t call unneeded
batadv
_free() functions.

So, this patch makes all batadv_init() clean up all allocated memory
before returning with an error to no call correspoing batadv
_free()
and open-codes batadv_mesh_free() with proper order to avoid touching
uninitialized fields.

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.1%