Bug 1945379 (CVE-2021-29649)

Summary:	CVE-2021-29649 kernel: memory leak in user mode driver due to lack of cleanup steps in kernel/usermode_driver.c and kernel/bpf/preload/bpf_preload_kern.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, adscvr, airlied, alciregi, bdettelb, bhu, blc, bmasney, brdeoliv, bskeggs, chwhite, crwood, dhoward, dvlasenk, fhrbata, fpacheco, hdegoede, hkrzesin, jarodwilson, jeremy, jforbes, jglisse, jlelli, jonathan, josef, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, kcarcia, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, linville, masami256, mchehab, mlangsdo, nmurray, ptalbert, qzhao, rvrbovsk, steved, tomckay, walters, williams
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The user mode driver (UMD) has a copy_process() memory leak, related to a lack of cleanup steps in kernel/usermode_driver.c and kernel/bpf/preload/bpf_preload_kern.c.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-04-13 12:39:11 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1945384
Bug Blocks:	1945386

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-03-31 18:27:36 UTC

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.11. The user mode driver (UMD) has a copy_process() memory leak, related to a lack of cleanup steps in kernel/usermode_driver.c and kernel/bpf/preload/bpf_preload_kern.c.

Reference and upstream patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f60a85cad677c4f9bb4cadd764f1d106c38c7cf8

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-03-31 18:32:05 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1945384]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2021-04-02 00:17:23 UTC

FEDORA-2021-41fb54ae9f has been pushed to the Fedora 34 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2021-04-02 01:14:31 UTC

FEDORA-2021-6b0f287b8b has been pushed to the Fedora 32 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2021-04-02 01:21:35 UTC

FEDORA-2021-2306e89112 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-04-13 12:39:11 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-29649