vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-47249: Security patch for kernel (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 21, 2024 | May 21, 2025 | May 20, 2026 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: rds: fix memory leak in rds_recvmsg
Syzbot reported memory leak in rds. The problem
was in unputted refcount in case of error.
int rds_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size,
int msg_flags)
{
...
if (!rds_next_incoming(rs, &inc)) {
...
}
After this "if" inc refcount incremented and
if (rds_cmsg_recv(inc, msg, rs)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
goto out;
}
...
out:
return ret;
}
in case of rds_cmsg_recv() fail the refcount won't be
decremented. And it's easy to see from ftrace log, that
rds_inc_addref() don't have rds_inc_put() pair in
rds_recvmsg() after rds_cmsg_recv()
1) | rds_recvmsg() {
1) 3.721 us | rds_inc_addref();
1) 3.853 us | rds_message_inc_copy_to_user();
1) + 10.395 us | rds_cmsg_recv();
1) + 34.260 us | }
Solutions
References
- AMAZON-AL2/ALAS-2021-1685
- AMAZON-AL2/ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-002
- AMAZON-AL2/ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-004
- AMAZON-AL2/ALASKERNEL-5.10-2022-002
- AMAZON-AL2/ALASKERNEL-5.4-2022-004
- CVE-2021-47249
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-47249
- CWE-401
- EUVD-EUVD-2021-33897
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-33897
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