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HistoryFeb 27, 2024 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2021-46924

2024-02-2700:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
14
linux kernel
nfc
st21nfca
memory leak fix

CVSS3

5.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

6.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%

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.

CVSS3

5.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

6.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%