CVE-2021-47613

HIGH

Linux Kernel 5.15-5.15.9 - Use-After-Free in Virtio I2C Completion Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: virtio: fix completion handling The driver currently assumes that the notify callback is only received when the device is done with all the queued buffers. However, this is not true, since the notify callback could be called without any of the queued buffers being completed (for example, with virtio-pci and shared interrupts) or with only some of the buffers being completed (since the driver makes them available to the device in multiple separate virtqueue_add_sgs() calls). This can lead to incorrect data on the I2C bus or memory corruption in the guest if the device operates on buffers which are have been freed by the driver. (The WARN_ON in the driver is also triggered.) BUG kmalloc-128 (Tainted: G W ): Poison overwritten First byte 0x0 instead of 0x6b Allocated in i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr+0x9d/0x1de age=243 cpu=0 pid=28 memdup_user+0x2e/0xbd i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr+0x9d/0x1de i2cdev_ioctl+0x247/0x2ed vfs_ioctl+0x21/0x30 sys_ioctl+0xb18/0xb41 Freed in i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr+0x1bb/0x1de age=68 cpu=0 pid=28 kfree+0x1bd/0x1cc i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr+0x1bb/0x1de i2cdev_ioctl+0x247/0x2ed vfs_ioctl+0x21/0x30 sys_ioctl+0xb18/0xb41 Fix this by calling virtio_get_buf() from the notify handler like other virtio drivers and by actually waiting for all the buffers to be completed.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (8)
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 3cfc88380413d20f777dc6648a38f683962e52bf - 9cbb957441ed8873577d7d313a3d79d69f1dad5c
Linux/Linux 3cfc88380413d20f777dc6648a38f683962e52bf - b503de239f62eca898cfb7e820d9a35499137d22
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15.10 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16
linux/linux_kernel 5.16 rc1 (4 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.15 - 5.15.10
Published Jun 19, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026