CVE-2024-0443CWE-402

Kernel: blkio memory leakage due to blkcg and some blkgs are not freed after they are made offline.

Medium · published January 11, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A flaw was found in the blkgs destruction path in block/blk-cgroup.c in the Linux kernel, leading to a cgroup blkio memory leakage problem. When a cgroup is being destroyed, cgroup_rstat_flush() is only called at css_release_work_fn(), which is called when the blkcg reference count reaches 0. This circular dependency will prevent blkcg and some blkgs from being freed after they are made offline. This issue may allow an attacker with a local access to cause system instability, such as an out of memory error.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00249 · 15.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-402 · Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')
Published
2024-01-11T23:30Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 JAN 23:30Z
    Kernel: blkio memory leakage due to blkcg and some blkgs are not freed after they are made offline.
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