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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2021-47024

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 2/28/2024 4:15:39 AM

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Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vsock/virtio: free queued packets when closing socket

As reported by syzbot [1], there is a memory leak while closing the
socket. We partially solved this issue with commit ac03046ece2b
("vsock/virtio: free packets during the socket release"), but we
forgot to drain the RX queue when the socket is definitely closed by
the scheduled work.

To avoid future issues, let's use the new virtio_transport_remove_sock()
to drain the RX queue before removing the socket from the af_vsock lists
calling vsock_remove_sock().

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=24452624fc4c571eedd9
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Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27691665145e74a45034a9dccf1150cf1894763a [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37c38674ef2f8d7e8629e5d433c37d6c1273d16b [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8432b8114957235f42e070a16118a7f750de9d39 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b605673b523fe33abeafb2136759bcbc9c1e6ebf [No types assigned]