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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 26, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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...

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 21, 2024
Last updated Dec 26, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-47283

GHSA ID

GHSA-2277-9x7j-58f3

Source code

No known source code

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