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CVE-2021-47527

serial: core: fix transmit-buffer reset and memleak

Severity Score

5.5
*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

Track
*SSVC
Descriptions

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

serial: core: fix transmit-buffer reset and memleak

Commit 761ed4a94582 ("tty: serial_core: convert uart_close to use
tty_port_close") converted serial core to use tty_port_close() but
failed to notice that the transmit buffer still needs to be freed on
final close.

Not freeing the transmit buffer means that the buffer is no longer
cleared on next open so that any ioctl() waiting for the buffer to drain
might wait indefinitely (e.g. on termios changes) or that stale data can
end up being transmitted in case tx is restarted.

Furthermore, the buffer of any port that has been opened would leak on
driver unbind.

Note that the port lock is held when clearing the buffer pointer due to
the ldisc race worked around by commit a5ba1d95e46e ("uart: fix race
between uart_put_char() and uart_shutdown()").

Also note that the tty-port shutdown() callback is not called for
console ports so it is not strictly necessary to free the buffer page
after releasing the lock (cf. d72402145ace ("tty/serial: do not free
trasnmit buffer page under port lock")).

En el kernel de Linux, se resolvió la siguiente vulnerabilidad: serial: core: fix transmit-buffer reset y memleak commit 761ed4a94582 ("tty: serial_core: convert uart_close to use tty_port_close") núcleo serial convertido para usar tty_port_close() pero no se dio cuenta que el búfer de transmisión todavía necesita ser liberado en el cierre final. No liberar el búfer de transmisión significa que el búfer ya no se borra en la próxima apertura, por lo que cualquier ioctl() que espere a que se drene el búfer podría esperar indefinidamente (por ejemplo, en cambios de termios) o que los datos obsoletos pueden terminar transmitiéndose en caso de que tx sea reiniciado. Además, el búfer de cualquier puerto que se haya abierto se filtraría al desvincular el controlador. Tenga en cuenta que el bloqueo del puerto se mantiene al borrar el puntero del búfer debido a la ejecución de ldisc solucionada mediante el commit a5ba1d95e46e ("uart: corrige la ejecución entre uart_put_char() y uart_shutdown()"). También tenga en cuenta que la devolución de llamada tty-portshutdown() no se llama para los puertos de consola, por lo que no es estrictamente necesario liberar la página del búfer después de liberar el bloqueo (cf. d72402145ace ("tty/serial: no liberar la página del búfer de transmisión en el puerto cerrar con llave")).

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CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:Track
Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Tech. Impact
Partial
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2024-05-24 CVE Reserved
  • 2024-05-24 CVE Published
  • 2024-05-25 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-08-04 CVE Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CAPEC
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Linux
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Linux
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Linux
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Linux
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Linux
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>= 4.9 < 5.10.84
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Linux
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>= 4.9 < 5.15.7
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Linux
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