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CVE-2021-47173

2024-03-2500:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
9
linux kernel
memory leak
vulnerability

5.5 Medium

CVSS3

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

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
misc/uss720: fix memory leak in uss720_probe uss720_probe forgets to
decrease the refcount of usbdev in uss720_probe. Fix this by decreasing the
refcount of usbdev by usb_put_dev. BUG: memory leak unreferenced object
0xffff888101113800 (size 2048): comm “kworker/0:1”, pid 7, jiffies
4294956777 (age 28.870s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): ff ff ff ff 31 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 …1… 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 03 00 00 00 … backtrace: [<ffffffff82b8e822>] kmalloc
include/linux/slab.h:554 [inline] [<ffffffff82b8e822>] kzalloc
include/linux/slab.h:684 [inline] [<ffffffff82b8e822>]
usb_alloc_dev+0x32/0x450 drivers/usb/core/usb.c:582 [<ffffffff82b98441>]
hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5129 [inline] [<ffffffff82b98441>]
hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5363 [inline]
[<ffffffff82b98441>] port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5509 [inline]
[<ffffffff82b98441>] hub_event+0x1171/0x20c0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5591
[<ffffffff81259229>] process_one_work+0x2c9/0x600 kernel/workqueue.c:2275
[<ffffffff81259b19>] worker_thread+0x59/0x5d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2421
[<ffffffff81261228>] kthread+0x178/0x1b0 kernel/kthread.c:292
[<ffffffff8100227f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:294

5.5 Medium

CVSS3

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

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%