CVE-2021-47453

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.14-5.14.14 - Use-After-Free in ICE Driver Auxiliary Index Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: Avoid crash from unnecessary IDA free In the remove path, there is an attempt to free the aux_idx IDA whether it was allocated or not. This can potentially cause a crash when unloading the driver on systems that do not initialize support for RDMA. But, this free cannot be gated by the status bit for RDMA, since it is allocated if the driver detects support for RDMA at probe time, but the driver can enter into a state where RDMA is not supported after the IDA has been allocated at probe time and this would lead to a memory leak. Initialize aux_idx to an invalid value and check for a valid value when unloading to determine if an IDA free is necessary.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 9.4%
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 (8)
Linux/Linux < 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.14.15 - 5.14.*
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux d25a0fc41c1f927bb914e72a03c1898052557406 - 73e30a62b19b9fbb4e6a3465c59da186630d5f2e
Linux/Linux d25a0fc41c1f927bb914e72a03c1898052557406 - 777682e59840e24e6c5672197e6ffbcf4bff823b
linux/linux_kernel 5.15 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.14 - 5.14.15
Published May 22, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026