CVE-2021-47345
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 4.4.276 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/cma: Fix rdma_resolve_route() memory leak
Fix a memory leak when "mda_resolve_route() is called more than once on
the same "rdma_cm_id".
This is possible if cma_query_handler() triggers the
RDMA_CM_EVENT_ROUTE_ERROR flow which puts the state machine back and
allows rdma_resolve_route() to be called again.
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47344
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 4.4.276 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: zr364xx: fix memory leak in zr364xx_start_readpipe
syzbot reported memory leak in zr364xx driver.
The problem was in non-freed urb in case of
usb_submit_urb() fail.
backtrace:
[<ffffffff82baedf6>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:561 [inline]
[<ffffffff82baedf6>] usb_alloc_urb+0x66/0xe0 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:74
[<ffffffff82f7cce8>] zr364xx_start_readpipe+0x78/0x130 drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/zr364xx.c:1022
[<ffffffff84251dfc>] zr364xx_board_init drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/zr364xx.c:1383 [inline]
[<ffffffff84251dfc>] zr364xx_probe+0x6a3/0x851 drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/zr364xx.c:1516
[<ffffffff82bb6507>] usb_probe_interface+0x177/0x370 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
[<ffffffff826018a9>] really_probe+0x159/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:576
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47330
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 4.4.276 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: serial: 8250: serial_cs: Fix a memory leak in error handling path
In the probe function, if the final 'serial_config()' fails, 'info' is
leaking.
Add a resource handling path to free this memory.
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47320
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 4.4.276 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfs: fix acl memory leak of posix_acl_create()
When looking into another nfs xfstests report, I found acl and
default_acl in nfs3_proc_create() and nfs3_proc_mknod() error
paths are possibly leaked. Fix them in advance.
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47314
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 4.4.276 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
memory: fsl_ifc: fix leak of private memory on probe failure
On probe error the driver should free the memory allocated for private
structure. Fix this by using resource-managed allocation.
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47298
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 5.10.54 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, sockmap: Fix potential memory leak on unlikely error case
If skb_linearize is needed and fails we could leak a msg on the error
handling. To fix ensure we kfree the msg block before returning error.
Found during code review.
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47296
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 4.19.199 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: PPC: Fix kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl vcpu_load leak
vcpu_put is not called if the user copy fails. This can result in preempt
notifier corruption and crashes, among other issues.
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47292
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 5.13.6 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring: fix memleak in io_init_wq_offload()
I got memory leak report when doing fuzz test:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888107310a80 (size 96):
comm "syz-executor.6", pid 4610, jiffies 4295140240 (age 20.135s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N..........
backtrace:
[<000000001974933b>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:591 [inline]
[<000000001974933b>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
[<000000001974933b>] io_init_wq_offload fs/io_uring.c:7920 [inline]
[<000000001974933b>] io_uring_alloc_task_context+0x466/0x640 fs/io_uring.c:7955
[<0000000039d0800d>] __io_uring_add_tctx_node+0x256/0x360 fs/io_uring.c:9016
[<000000008482e78c>] io_uring_add_tctx_node fs/io_uring.c:9052 [inline]
[<000000008482e78c>] __do_sys_io_uring_enter fs/io_uring.c:9354 [inline]
[<000000008482e78c>] __se_sys_io_uring_enter fs/io_uring.c:9301 [inline]
[<000000008482e78c>] __x64_sys_io_uring_enter+0xabc/0xc20 fs/io_uring.c:9301
[<00000000b875f18f>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[<00000000b875f18f>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
[<000000006b0a8484>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
CPU0 CPU1
io_uring_enter io_uring_enter
io_uring_add_tctx_node io_uring_add_tctx_node
__io_uring_add_tctx_node __io_uring_add_tctx_node
io_uring_alloc_task_context io_uring_alloc_task_context
io_init_wq_offload io_init_wq_offload
hash = kzalloc hash = kzalloc
ctx->hash_map = hash ctx->hash_map = hash <- one of the hash is leaked
When calling io_uring_enter() in parallel, the 'hash_map' will be leaked,
add uring_lock to protect 'hash_map'.
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47287
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 5.13.6 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix memory leak when driver_register() fail
If driver_register() returns with error we need to free the memory
allocated for auxdrv->driver.name before returning from
__auxiliary_driver_register()
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47258
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 4.9.273 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: core: Fix error handling of scsi_host_alloc()
After device is initialized via device_initialize(), or its name is set via
dev_set_name(), the device has to be freed via put_device(). Otherwise
device name will be leaked because it is allocated dynamically in
dev_set_name().
Fix the leak by replacing kfree() with put_device(). Since
scsi_host_dev_release() properly handles IDA and kthread removal, remove
special-casing these from the error handling as well.
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47253
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 5.10.45 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Fix potential memory leak in DMUB hw_init
[Why]
On resume we perform DMUB hw_init which allocates memory:
dm_resume->dm_dmub_hw_init->dc_dmub_srv_create->kzalloc
That results in memory leak in suspend/resume scenarios.
[How]
Allocate memory for the DC wrapper to DMUB only if it was not
allocated before.
No need to reallocate it on suspend/resume.
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47250
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 4.4.274 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ipv4: fix memory leak in netlbl_cipsov4_add_std
Reported by syzkaller:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888105df7000 (size 64):
comm "syz-executor842", pid 360, jiffies 4294824824 (age 22.546s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<00000000e67ed558>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:590 [inline]
[<00000000e67ed558>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:720 [inline]
[<00000000e67ed558>] netlbl_cipsov4_add_std net/netlabel/netlabel_cipso_v4.c:145 [inline]
[<00000000e67ed558>] netlbl_cipsov4_add+0x390/0x2340 net/netlabel/netlabel_cipso_v4.c:416
[<0000000006040154>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x20e/0x320 net/netlink/genetlink.c:739
[<00000000204d7a1c>] genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:783 [inline]
[<00000000204d7a1c>] genl_rcv_msg+0x2bf/0x4f0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:800
[<00000000c0d6a995>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x134/0x3d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2504
[<00000000d78b9d2c>] genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:811
[<000000009733081b>] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1314 [inline]
[<000000009733081b>] netlink_unicast+0x4a0/0x6a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1340
[<00000000d5fd43b8>] netlink_sendmsg+0x789/0xc70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1929
[<000000000a2d1e40>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:654 [inline]
[<000000000a2d1e40>] sock_sendmsg+0x139/0x170 net/socket.c:674
[<00000000321d1969>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x658/0x7d0 net/socket.c:2350
[<00000000964e16bc>] ___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x170 net/socket.c:2404
[<000000001615e288>] __sys_sendmsg+0xd3/0x190 net/socket.c:2433
[<000000004ee8b6a5>] do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47
[<00000000171c7cee>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
The memory of doi_def->map.std pointing is allocated in
netlbl_cipsov4_add_std, but no place has freed it. It should be
freed in cipso_v4_doi_free which frees the cipso DOI resource.
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47249
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 4.4.274 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: rds: fix memory leak in rds_recvmsg
Syzbot reported memory leak in rds. The problem
was in unputted refcount in case of error.
int rds_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size,
int msg_flags)
{
...
if (!rds_next_incoming(rs, &inc)) {
...
}
After this "if" inc refcount incremented and
if (rds_cmsg_recv(inc, msg, rs)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
goto out;
}
...
out:
return ret;
}
in case of rds_cmsg_recv() fail the refcount won't be
decremented. And it's easy to see from ftrace log, that
rds_inc_addref() don't have rds_inc_put() pair in
rds_recvmsg() after rds_cmsg_recv()
1) | rds_recvmsg() {
1) 3.721 us | rds_inc_addref();
1) 3.853 us | rds_message_inc_copy_to_user();
1) + 10.395 us | rds_cmsg_recv();
1) + 34.260 us | }
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47246
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 5.4.128 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5e: Fix page reclaim for dead peer hairpin
When adding a hairpin flow, a firmware-side send queue is created for
the peer net device, which claims some host memory pages for its
internal ring buffer. If the peer net device is removed/unbound before
the hairpin flow is deleted, then the send queue is not destroyed which
leads to a stack trace on pci device remove:
[ 748.005230] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.2: wait_func:1094:(pid 12985): MANAGE_PAGES(0x108) timeout. Will cause a leak of a command resource
[ 748.005231] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.2: reclaim_pages:514:(pid 12985): failed reclaiming pages: err -110
[ 748.001835] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.2: mlx5_reclaim_root_pages:653:(pid 12985): failed reclaiming pages (-110) for func id 0x0
[ 748.002171] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 748.001177] FW pages counter is 4 after reclaiming all pages
[ 748.001186] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 12985 at drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c:685 mlx5_reclaim_startup_pages+0x34b/0x460 [mlx5_core] [ +0.002771] Modules linked in: cls_flower mlx5_ib mlx5_core ptp pps_core act_mirred sch_ingress openvswitch nsh xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xt_addrtype iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 br_netfilter rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi rdma_cm ib_umad ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm ib_uverbs ib_core overlay fuse [last unloaded: pps_core]
[ 748.007225] CPU: 1 PID: 12985 Comm: tee Not tainted 5.12.0+ #1
[ 748.001376] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 748.002315] RIP: 0010:mlx5_reclaim_startup_pages+0x34b/0x460 [mlx5_core]
[ 748.001679] Code: 28 00 00 00 0f 85 22 01 00 00 48 81 c4 b0 00 00 00 31 c0 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 48 c7 c7 40 cc 19 a1 e8 9f 71 0e e2 <0f> 0b e9 30 ff ff ff 48 c7 c7 a0 cc 19 a1 e8 8c 71 0e e2 0f 0b e9
[ 748.003781] RSP: 0018:ffff88815220faf8 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 748.001149] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881b4900280 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 748.001445] RDX: 0000000000000027 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffed102a441f51
[ 748.001614] RBP: 00000000000032b9 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed1054a15ee8
[ 748.001446] R10: ffff8882a50af73b R11: ffffed1054a15ee7 R12: fffffbfff07c1e30
[ 748.001447] R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8881b492cba8 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 748.001429] FS: 00007f58bd08b580(0000) GS:ffff8882a5080000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 748.001695] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 748.001309] CR2: 000055a026351740 CR3: 00000001d3b48006 CR4: 0000000000370ea0
[ 748.001506] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 748.001483] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 748.001654] Call Trace:
[ 748.000576] ? mlx5_satisfy_startup_pages+0x290/0x290 [mlx5_core]
[ 748.001416] ? mlx5_cmd_teardown_hca+0xa2/0xd0 [mlx5_core]
[ 748.001354] ? mlx5_cmd_init_hca+0x280/0x280 [mlx5_core]
[ 748.001203] mlx5_function_teardown+0x30/0x60 [mlx5_core]
[ 748.001275] mlx5_uninit_one+0xa7/0xc0 [mlx5_core]
[ 748.001200] remove_one+0x5f/0xc0 [mlx5_core]
[ 748.001075] pci_device_remove+0x9f/0x1d0
[ 748.000833] device_release_driver_internal+0x1e0/0x490
[ 748.001207] unbind_store+0x19f/0x200
[ 748.000942] ? sysfs_file_ops+0x170/0x170
[ 748.001000] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x2bc/0x450
[ 748.000970] new_sync_write+0x373/0x610
[ 748.001124] ? new_sync_read+0x600/0x600
[ 748.001057] ? lock_acquire+0x4d6/0x700
[ 748.000908] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x400/0x400
[ 748.001126] ? fd_install+0x1c9/0x4d0
[ 748.000951] vfs_write+0x4d0/0x800
[ 748.000804] ksys_write+0xf9/0x1d0
[ 748.000868] ? __x64_sys_read+0xb0/0xb0
[ 748.000811] ? filp_open+0x50/0x50
[ 748.000919] ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1d/0x50
[ 748.001223] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x80
[ 748.000892] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[ 748.00
---truncated---
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47237
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 4.4.274 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: hamradio: fix memory leak in mkiss_close
My local syzbot instance hit memory leak in
mkiss_open()[1]. The problem was in missing
free_netdev() in mkiss_close().
In mkiss_open() netdevice is allocated and then
registered, but in mkiss_close() netdevice was
only unregistered, but not freed.
Fail log:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8880281ba000 (size 4096):
comm "syz-executor.1", pid 11443, jiffies 4295046091 (age 17.660s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
61 78 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ax0.............
00 27 fa 2a 80 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .'.*............
backtrace:
[<ffffffff81a27201>] kvmalloc_node+0x61/0xf0
[<ffffffff8706e7e8>] alloc_netdev_mqs+0x98/0xe80
[<ffffffff84e64192>] mkiss_open+0xb2/0x6f0 [1]
[<ffffffff842355db>] tty_ldisc_open+0x9b/0x110
[<ffffffff84236488>] tty_set_ldisc+0x2e8/0x670
[<ffffffff8421f7f3>] tty_ioctl+0xda3/0x1440
[<ffffffff81c9f273>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200
[<ffffffff8911263a>] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0xb0
[<ffffffff89200068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8880141a9a00 (size 96):
comm "syz-executor.1", pid 11443, jiffies 4295046091 (age 17.660s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
e8 a2 1b 28 80 88 ff ff e8 a2 1b 28 80 88 ff ff ...(.......(....
98 92 9c aa b0 40 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .....@..........
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8709f68b>] __hw_addr_create_ex+0x5b/0x310
[<ffffffff8709fb38>] __hw_addr_add_ex+0x1f8/0x2b0
[<ffffffff870a0c7b>] dev_addr_init+0x10b/0x1f0
[<ffffffff8706e88b>] alloc_netdev_mqs+0x13b/0xe80
[<ffffffff84e64192>] mkiss_open+0xb2/0x6f0 [1]
[<ffffffff842355db>] tty_ldisc_open+0x9b/0x110
[<ffffffff84236488>] tty_set_ldisc+0x2e8/0x670
[<ffffffff8421f7f3>] tty_ioctl+0xda3/0x1440
[<ffffffff81c9f273>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200
[<ffffffff8911263a>] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0xb0
[<ffffffff89200068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8880219bfc00 (size 512):
comm "syz-executor.1", pid 11443, jiffies 4295046091 (age 17.660s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 a0 1b 28 80 88 ff ff 80 8f b1 8d ff ff ff ff ...(............
80 8f b1 8d ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff81a27201>] kvmalloc_node+0x61/0xf0
[<ffffffff8706eec7>] alloc_netdev_mqs+0x777/0xe80
[<ffffffff84e64192>] mkiss_open+0xb2/0x6f0 [1]
[<ffffffff842355db>] tty_ldisc_open+0x9b/0x110
[<ffffffff84236488>] tty_set_ldisc+0x2e8/0x670
[<ffffffff8421f7f3>] tty_ioctl+0xda3/0x1440
[<ffffffff81c9f273>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200
[<ffffffff8911263a>] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0xb0
[<ffffffff89200068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888029b2b200 (size 256):
comm "syz-executor.1", pid 11443, jiffies 4295046091 (age 17.660s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff81a27201>] kvmalloc_node+0x61/0xf0
[<ffffffff8706f062>] alloc_netdev_mqs+0x912/0xe80
[<ffffffff84e64192>] mkiss_open+0xb2/0x6f0 [1]
[<ffffffff842355db>] tty_ldisc_open+0x9b/0x110
[<ffffffff84236488>] tty_set_ldisc+0x2e8/0x670
[<ffffffff8421f7f3>] tty_ioctl+0xda3/0x1440
[<ffffffff81c9f273>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200
[<ffffffff8911263a>] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0xb0
[<ffffffff89200068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47236
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 4.4.274 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: cdc_eem: fix tx fixup skb leak
when usbnet transmit a skb, eem fixup it in eem_tx_fixup(),
if skb_copy_expand() failed, it return NULL,
usbnet_start_xmit() will have no chance to free original skb.
fix it by free orginal skb in eem_tx_fixup() first,
then check skb clone status, if failed, return NULL to usbnet.
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2021-47231
5.5
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Linux Kernel < 4.14.238 - Memory Leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: mcba_usb: fix memory leak in mcba_usb
Syzbot reported memory leak in SocketCAN driver for Microchip CAN BUS
Analyzer Tool. The problem was in unfreed usb_coherent.
In mcba_usb_start() 20 coherent buffers are allocated and there is
nothing, that frees them:
1) In callback function the urb is resubmitted and that's all
2) In disconnect function urbs are simply killed, but URB_FREE_BUFFER
is not set (see mcba_usb_start) and this flag cannot be used with
coherent buffers.
Fail log:
| [ 1354.053291][ T8413] mcba_usb 1-1:0.0 can0: device disconnected
| [ 1367.059384][ T8420] kmemleak: 20 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmem)
So, all allocated buffers should be freed with usb_free_coherent()
explicitly
NOTE:
The same pattern for allocating and freeing coherent buffers
is used in drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c
CWE-401
May 21, 2024
CVE-2024-4435
5.9
MEDIUM
EPSS 0.00
Memory Corruption
When storing unbounded types in a BTreeMap, a node is represented as a linked list of "memory chunks". It was discovered recently that when we deallocate a node, in some cases only the first memory chunk is deallocated, and the rest of the memory chunks remain (incorrectly) allocated, causing a memory leak. In the worst case, depending on how a canister uses the BTreeMap, an adversary could interact with the canister through its API and trigger interactions with the map that keep consuming memory due to the memory leak. This could potentially lead to using an excessive amount of memory, or even running out of memory.
This issue has been fixed in #212 https://github.com/dfinity/stable-structures/pull/212 by changing the logic for deallocating nodes to ensure that all of a node's memory chunks are deallocated and users are asked to upgrade to version 0.6.4.. Tests have been added to prevent regressions of this nature moving forward. Note: Users of stable-structure < 0.6.0 are not affected.
Users who are not storing unbounded types in BTreeMap are not affected and do not need to upgrade. Otherwise, an upgrade to version 0.6.4 is necessary.
CWE-401
May 21, 2024