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CVE-2021-37159

Updated on 21 Jul 2021

Severity

6.4 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
6.4
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

hso_free_net_device in drivers/net/usb/hso.c in the Linux kernel through 5.13.4 calls unregister_netdev without checking for the NETREG_REGISTERED state, leading to a use-after-free and a double free.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 8 , AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 6 plus , CentOS 7 , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 7 plus , CentOS 8 , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , CloudLinux OS 6 , CloudLinux OS 6h , CloudLinux OS 7 , CloudLinux OS 7h , CloudLinux OS 8 , Debian 10 , Debian 10 cloud , Debian 9 , Endurance 7 eig 3.10 , OpenVZ 6 , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Proxmox VE 5 , Proxmox VE 6 , RHEL 6 , RHEL 7 , RHEL 7 ELS , RHEL 8 , Rocky Linux 8 , Scientific 6 , Ubuntu 14.04 , Ubuntu 14.04 ESM , Ubuntu 16.04 , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ESM , Ubuntu 18.04 , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04
Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+69 more)
hso_free_net_device in drivers/net/usb/hso.c in the Linux kernel through 5.13.4 calls unregister_netdev without checking for the NETREG_REGISTERED state, leading to a use-after-free and a double free.

Fixes