CVE-2021-47467

kunit: fix reference count leak in kfree_at_end

Medium · published May 22, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
41.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

kunit: fix reference count leak in kfree_at_end

The reference counting issue happens in the normal path of

kfree_at_end(). When kunit_alloc_and_get_resource() is invoked, the

function forgets to handle the returned resource object, whose refcount

increased inside, causing a refcount leak.

Fix this issue by calling kunit_alloc_resource() instead of

kunit_alloc_and_get_resource().

Fixed the following when applying:

Shuah Khan <[email protected]>

CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis

+ kunit_alloc_resource(test, NULL, kfree_res_free, GFP_KERNEL,

(void *)to_free);

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00489 · 41.2th percentile
Published
2024-05-22T06:23Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 MAY 06:23Z
    kunit: fix reference count leak in kfree_at_end
    cvelistv5