CVE-2021-47416
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 2.6.28-4.4.289 - Use-After-Free in MDIO Bus Interface
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: mdio: fix memory leak Syzbot reported memory leak in MDIO bus interface, the problem was in wrong state logic. MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED indicates 2 states: 1. Bus is only allocated 2. Bus allocated and __mdiobus_register() fails, but device_register() was called In case of device_register() has been called we should call put_device() to correctly free the memory allocated for this device, but mdiobus_free() calls just kfree(dev) in case of MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED state To avoid this behaviour we need to set bus->state to MDIOBUS_UNREGISTERED _before_ calling device_register(), because put_device() should be called even in case of device_register() failure.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0023
EPSS Percentile
14.0%
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 (20)
Linux/Linux
< 2.6.28
Linux/Linux
2.6.28
Linux/Linux
4.14.251 - 4.14.*
Linux/Linux
4.19.211 - 4.19.*
Linux/Linux
4.4.289 - 4.4.*
Linux/Linux
4.9.287 - 4.9.*
Linux/Linux
46abc02175b3c246dd5141d878f565a8725060c9 - 064c2616234a7394867c924b5c1303974f3a4f4d
Linux/Linux
46abc02175b3c246dd5141d878f565a8725060c9 - 0d2dd40a7be61b89a7c99dae8ee96389d27b413a
Linux/Linux
46abc02175b3c246dd5141d878f565a8725060c9 - 2250392d930bd0d989f24d355d6355b0150256e7
Linux/Linux
46abc02175b3c246dd5141d878f565a8725060c9 - 2397b9e118721292429fea8807a698e71b94795f
... and 10 more
Published
May 21, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026