Bug 2035338 (CVE-2021-45095)

Summary: CVE-2021-45095 kernel: refcount leak in pep_sock_accept() in net/phonet/pep.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
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Fixed In Version: Linux kernel 5.16-rc6 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A memory leak flaw in the Linux kernel's PhoNet (Phone Network protocol) functionality was found in the way user gets memory allocation fail inside function pep_sock_accept (for the failure branch). A local user could use this flaw to starve the resources causing a denial of service.
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Bug Depends On: 2035339    
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-12-23 17:06:12 UTC
pep_sock_accept in net/phonet/pep.c in the Linux kernel through 5.15.8 has a refcount leak.

Reference and upstream patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=bcd0f93353326954817a4f9fa55ec57fb38acbb0

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-12-23 17:06:58 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2035339]

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2021-12-23 20:28:38 UTC
For fedora: # CONFIG_PHONET is not set