CVE-2021-47455

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 3.16.83-3.17 - Use-After-Free in PTP Clock Registration

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ptp: Fix possible memory leak in ptp_clock_register() I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test: unreferenced object 0xffff88800906c618 (size 8): comm "i2c-idt82p33931", pid 4421, jiffies 4294948083 (age 13.188s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 70 74 70 30 00 00 00 00 ptp0.... backtrace: [<00000000312ed458>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x19f/0x3a0 [<0000000079f6e2ff>] kvasprintf+0xb5/0x150 [<0000000026aae54f>] kvasprintf_const+0x60/0x190 [<00000000f323a5f7>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150 [<000000004e35abdd>] dev_set_name+0xc0/0x100 [<00000000f20cfe25>] ptp_clock_register+0x9f4/0xd30 [ptp] [<000000008bb9f0de>] idt82p33_probe.cold+0x8b6/0x1561 [ptp_idt82p33] When posix_clock_register() returns an error, the name allocated in dev_set_name() will be leaked, the put_device() should be used to give up the device reference, then the name will be freed in kobject_cleanup() and other memory will be freed in ptp_clock_release().

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.4%
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 (22)
Linux/Linux < 5.5
Linux/Linux 0393b8720128d5b39db8523e5bfbfc689f18c37c
Linux/Linux 2dece4d6d13fe179ee3a5991811712725a56e2f7
Linux/Linux 3.16.83 - 3.17
Linux/Linux 4.14.162 - 4.15
Linux/Linux 4.19.93 - 4.20
Linux/Linux 4.4.224 - 4.5
Linux/Linux 4.9.224 - 4.10
Linux/Linux 5.10.241 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.14.15 - 5.14.*
... and 12 more
Published May 22, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026