CVE-2021-47170

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

25/03/2024

Last modified:

17/03/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: usbfs: Don&#39;t WARN about excessively large memory allocations Syzbot found that the kernel generates a WARNing if the user tries to submit a bulk transfer through usbfs with a buffer that is way too large. This isn&#39;t a bug in the kernel; it&#39;s merely an invalid request from the user and the usbfs code does handle it correctly. In theory the same thing can happen with async transfers, or with the packet descriptor table for isochronous transfers. To prevent the MM subsystem from complaining about these bad allocation requests, add the __GFP_NOWARN flag to the kmalloc calls for these buffers.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		4.19.193 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.124 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.42 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.12.9 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.13:rc3::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2021-47170

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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