Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-47283 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Linux Kernel

047910
CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
linux
CWE-772
NVD
Published: 2024-05-21
Updated: 2024-12-26

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net:sfc: fix non-freed irq in legacy irq mode SFC driver can be configured via modparam to work using MSI-X, MSI or legacy IRQ interrupts. In the last one, the interrupt was not properly released on module remove. It was not freed because the flag irqs_hooked was not set during initialization in the case of using legacy IRQ. Example of (trimmed) trace during module remove without this fix: remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'irq/125', leaking at least '0000:3b:00.1' WARNING: CPU: 39 PID: 3658 at fs/proc/generic.c:715 remove_proc_entry+0x15c/0x170 ...trimmed... Call Trace: unregister_irq_proc+0xe3/0x100 free_desc+0x29/0x70 irq_free_descs+0x47/0x70 mp_unmap_irq+0x58/0x60 acpi_unregister_gsi_ioapic+0x2a/0x40 acpi_pci_irq_disable+0x78/0xb0 pci_disable_device+0xd1/0x100 efx_pci_remove+0xa1/0x1e0 [sfc] pci_device_remove+0x38/0xa0 __device_release_driver+0x177/0x230 driver_detach+0xcb/0x110 bus_remove_driver+0x58/0xd0 pci_unregister_driver+0x2a/0xb0 efx_exit_module+0x24/0xf40 [sfc] __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x171/0x280 ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x83/0x1d0 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f9f9385800b ...trimmed...

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Linux
4733

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • HTTP DoS
    An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.

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