CVE-2021-47024

vsock/virtio: free queued packets when closing socket

published February 28, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00250 · 15.4th percentile
Published
2024-02-28T08:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 FEB 08:13Z
    vsock/virtio: free queued packets when closing socket
    cvelistv5