CVE-2021-46968

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.10-5.10.35 - Use-After-Free in zcard and zqueue Hot-Unplug

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/zcrypt: fix zcard and zqueue hot-unplug memleak Tests with kvm and a kmemdebug kernel showed, that on hot unplug the zcard and zqueue structs for the unplugged card or queue are not properly freed because of a mismatch with get/put for the embedded kref counter. This fix now adjusts the handling of the kref counters. With init the kref counter starts with 1. This initial value needs to drop to zero with the unregister of the card or queue to trigger the release and free the object.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 12.6%
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 (11)
Linux/Linux < 5.10
Linux/Linux 29c2680fd2bf3862ff5cf2957f198512493156f9 - 026499a9c2e002e621ad568d1378324ae97e5524
Linux/Linux 29c2680fd2bf3862ff5cf2957f198512493156f9 - 055a063a18bcd19b93709e3eac8078d6b2f04599
Linux/Linux 29c2680fd2bf3862ff5cf2957f198512493156f9 - 70fac8088cfad9f3b379c9082832b4d7532c16c2
Linux/Linux 29c2680fd2bf3862ff5cf2957f198512493156f9 - 971dc8706cee47393d393905d294ea47e39503d3
Linux/Linux 5.10
Linux/Linux 5.10.36 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.11.20 - 5.11.*
Linux/Linux 5.12.3 - 5.12.*
Linux/Linux 5.13
... and 1 more
Published Feb 27, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026