CVE-2021-46924

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 3.16.0-4.14.261 - Use-After-Free in NFC st21nfca Device Probe

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFC: st21nfca: Fix memory leak in device probe and remove 'phy->pending_skb' is alloced when device probe, but forgot to free in the error handling path and remove path, this cause memory leak as follows: unreferenced object 0xffff88800bc06800 (size 512): comm "8", pid 11775, jiffies 4295159829 (age 9.032s) 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: [<00000000d66c09ce>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x1ed/0x450 [<00000000c93382b3>] kmalloc_reserve+0x37/0xd0 [<000000005fea522c>] __alloc_skb+0x124/0x380 [<0000000019f29f9a>] st21nfca_hci_i2c_probe+0x170/0x8f2 Fix it by freeing 'pending_skb' in error and remove.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 13.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (15)
Linux/Linux < 3.16
Linux/Linux 3.16
Linux/Linux 4.14.261 - 4.14.*
Linux/Linux 4.19.224 - 4.19.*
Linux/Linux 5.10.90 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.13 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16
Linux/Linux 5.4.170 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux 68957303f44a501af5cf37913208a2acaa6bcdf1 - 1b9dadba502234eea7244879b8d5d126bfaf9f0c
Linux/Linux 68957303f44a501af5cf37913208a2acaa6bcdf1 - 1cd4063dbc91cf7965d73a6a3855e2028cd4613b
... and 5 more
Published Feb 27, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026