Bug 2035338 (CVE-2021-45095)
Summary: | CVE-2021-45095 kernel: refcount leak in pep_sock_accept() in net/phonet/pep.c | ||
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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, allarkin, bdettelb, bhu, brdeoliv, bskeggs, chwhite, crwood, dhoward, dvlasenk, fhrbata, fpacheco, hdegoede, hkrzesin, jarod, jarodwilson, jburrell, jeremy, jfaracco, jforbes, jglisse, jlelli, jonathan, josef, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, kcarcia, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, linville, lzampier, masami256, mchehab, nmurray, ptalbert, qzhao, rvrbovsk, scweaver, steved, vkumar, walters, williams |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Linux kernel 5.16-rc6 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
Doc Text: |
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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Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2022-01-02 18:02:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 2035339 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 2035340 |
Description
Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
2021-12-23 17:06:12 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2035339] For fedora: # CONFIG_PHONET is not set |