CVE-2021-47555

net: vlan: fix underflow for the real_dev refcnt

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 24, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
May 24, 2024

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Description

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

net: vlan: fix underflow for the real_dev refcnt

Inject error before dev_hold(real_dev) in register_vlan_dev(), and execute the following testcase:

ip link add dev dummy1 type dummy ip link add name dummy1.100 link dummy1 type vlan id 100 ip link del dev dummy1

When the dummy netdevice is removed, we will get a WARNING as following:

======================================================================= refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory. WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at lib/refcount.c:31 refcount_warn_saturate+0xbf/0x1e0

and an endless loop of:

======================================================================= unregister_netdevice: waiting for dummy1 to become free. Usage count = -1073741824

That is because dev_put(real_dev) in vlan_dev_free() be called without dev_hold(real_dev) in register_vlan_dev(). It makes the refcnt of real_dev underflow.

Move the dev_hold(real_dev) to vlan_dev_init() which is the call-back of ndo_init(). That makes dev_hold() and dev_put() for vlan's real_dev symmetrical.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
3.14.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:LCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 700602b662d7eaa816b1a3cb0abe7a85de358fd4 to before 5e44178864b38dd70b877985abd7d86fdb95f27dAffected
  • e04a7a84bb77f9cdf4475340fe931389bc72331c to before 6e800ee43218a56acc93676bbb3d93b74779e555Affected
  • 21032425c36ff85f16e72ca92193a8c401e4acd5 to before f7fc72a508cf115c273a7a29350069def1041890Affected
  • 563bcbae3ba233c275c244bfce2efe12938f5363 to before 01d9cc2dea3fde3bad6d27f464eff463496e2b00Affected
  • fca96b3f852a1b369b7b2844ce357cd689879934Affected
  • 5.14.19 to before 5.15Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.4.160 to before 5.4.163Affected
  • 5.10.80 to before 5.10.83Affected
  • 5.15.3 to before 5.15.6Affected

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