CVE-2021-47170

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.19.193 - Denial of Service via Excessive Memory Allocation in USBFS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: usbfs: Don't WARN about excessively large memory allocations Syzbot found that the kernel generates a WARNing if the user tries to submit a bulk transfer through usbfs with a buffer that is way too large. This isn't a bug in the kernel; it's merely an invalid request from the user and the usbfs code does handle it correctly. In theory the same thing can happen with async transfers, or with the packet descriptor table for isochronous transfers. To prevent the MM subsystem from complaining about these bad allocation requests, add the __GFP_NOWARN flag to the kmalloc calls for these buffers.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.2%
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-770
Status published
Products (14)
Linux/Linux < 3.3
Linux/Linux 3.3
Linux/Linux 4.19.193 - 4.19.*
Linux/Linux 5.10.42 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.12.9 - 5.12.*
Linux/Linux 5.13
Linux/Linux 5.4.124 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux add1aaeabe6b08ed26381a2a06e505b2f09c3ba5 - 2ab21d6e1411999b5fb43434f421f00bf50002eb
Linux/Linux add1aaeabe6b08ed26381a2a06e505b2f09c3ba5 - 2c835fede13e03f2743a333e4370b5ed2db91e83
Linux/Linux add1aaeabe6b08ed26381a2a06e505b2f09c3ba5 - 4f2629ea67e7225c3fd292c7fe4f5b3c9d6392de
... and 4 more
Published Mar 25, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026