CVE-2021-47527

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47527
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-47527.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-47527
Related
Published
2024-05-24T15:15:15Z
Modified
2024-09-11T04:41:13.174318Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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

serial: core: fix transmit-buffer reset and memleak

Commit 761ed4a94582 ("tty: serialcore: convert uartclose to use ttyportclose") converted serial core to use ttyportclose() 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 uartputchar() 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")).

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.10.84-1

Affected versions

5.*

5.10.46-4
5.10.46-5
5.10.70-1~bpo10+1
5.10.70-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.15.15-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.15.15-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}