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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2021-47581

Change History

CVE Modified by kernel.org 6/20/2024 5:15:11 AM

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

xen/netback: don't queue unlimited number of packages

In case a guest isn't consuming incoming network traffic as fast as it
is coming in, xen-netback is buffering network packages in unlimited
numbers today. This can result in host OOM situations.

Commit f48da8b14d04ca8 ("xen-netback: fix unlimited guest Rx internal
queue and carrier flapping") meant to introduce a mechanism to limit
the amount of buffered data by stopping the Tx queue when reaching the
data limit, but this doesn't work for cases like UDP.

When hitting the limit don't queue further SKBs, but drop them instead.
In order to be able to tell Rx packages have been dropped increment the
rx_dropped statistics counter in this case.

It should be noted that the old solution to continue queueing SKBs had
the additional problem of an overflow of the 32-bit rx_queue_len value
would result in intermittent Tx queue enabling.

This is part of XSA-392
Rejected reason: This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority.
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0928efb09178e01d3dc8e8849aa1c807436c3c37

								
						
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d99b3c6bd39a0a023e972d8f912fd47698bbbb8

								
						
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88f20cccbeec9a5e83621df5cc2453b5081454dc

								
						
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bebb2eedf679b3be4acaa20efda97f32c999d74

								
						
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4226b387436315e7f57465c15335f4f4b5b075d

								
						
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd926d189210cd1d5b4e618e45898053be6b4b3b

								
						
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be81992f9086b230623ae3ebbc85ecee4d00a3d3

								
						
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9f17e92917fd5786be872626a3928979ecc4c39

								
						

CVE Rejected by kernel.org 6/20/2024 5:15:11 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value