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

CVE-2021-46956

2024-02-2700:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
2
linux kernel
virtiofs
memory leak
vulnerability

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtiofs: fix memory leak in virtio_fs_probe() When accidentally passing
twice the same tag to qemu, kmemleak ended up reporting a memory leak in
virtiofs. Also, looking at the log I saw the following error (that’s when I
realised the duplicated tag): virtiofs: probe of virtio5 failed with error
-17 Here’s the kmemleak log for reference: unreferenced object
0xffff888103d47800 (size 1024): comm “systemd-udevd”, pid 118, jiffies
4294893780 (age 18.340s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de
ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 …N… ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 80 90 02
a0 ff ff ff ff … backtrace: [<000000000ebb87c1>]
virtio_fs_probe+0x171/0x7ae [virtiofs] [<00000000f8aca419>]
virtio_dev_probe+0x15f/0x210 [<000000004d6baf3c>] really_probe+0xea/0x430
[<00000000a6ceeac8>] device_driver_attach+0xa8/0xb0 [<00000000196f47a7>]
__driver_attach+0x98/0x140 [<000000000b20601d>] bus_for_each_dev+0x7b/0xc0
[<00000000399c7b7f>] bus_add_driver+0x11b/0x1f0 [<0000000032b09ba7>]
driver_register+0x8f/0xe0 [<00000000cdd55998>] 0xffffffffa002c013
[<000000000ea196a2>] do_one_initcall+0x64/0x2e0 [<0000000008f727ce>]
do_init_module+0x5c/0x260 [<000000003cdedab6>]
__do_sys_finit_module+0xb5/0x120 [<00000000ad2f48c6>]
do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 [<00000000809526b5>]
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%