ghsa-cw63-cpqx-9vx9
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:42
Modified
2025-04-20 03:48
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

The bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user functions in block/bio.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 do unbalanced refcounting when a SCSI I/O vector has small consecutive buffers belonging to the same page. The bio_add_pc_page function merges them into one, but the page reference is never dropped. This causes a memory leak and possible system lockup (exploitable against the host OS by a guest OS user, if a SCSI disk is passed through to a virtual machine) due to an out-of-memory condition.

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    "nvd_published_at": "2017-11-22T18:29:00Z",
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  "id": "GHSA-cw63-cpqx-9vx9",
  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:48:54Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:42:38Z",
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