CVE-2021-47396
Vulnérabilité non évaluée dans Linux (Linux)
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mac80211-hwsim: fix late beacon hrtimer handling Thomas explained in https://lore.kernel.org/r/87mtoeb4hb.ffs@tglx that our handling of the hrtimer here is wrong: If the timer fires late (e.g. due to vCPU scheduling, as reported by Dmitry/syzbot) then it tries to actually rearm the timer at the next deadline, which might be in the past already: 1 2 3 N N+1 | | | ... | | ^ intended to fire here (1) ^ next deadline here (2) ^ actually fired here The next time it fires, it's later, but will still try to schedule for the next deadline (now 3), etc. until it catches up with N, but that might take a long time, causing stalls etc. Now, all of this is simulation, so we just have to fix it, but note that the behaviour is wrong even per spec, since there's no value then in sending all those beacons unaligned - they should be aligned to the TBTT (1, 2, 3, ... in the picture), and if we're a bit (or a lot) late, then just resume at that point. Therefore, change the code to use hrtimer_forward_now() which will ensure that the next firing of the timer would be at N+1 (in the picture), i.e. the next interval point after the current time.
Gravité et risque d'exploitation
CVE-2021-47396 obtient un score CVSS de 0.0/10, soit une gravité non évaluée. Selon le modèle EPSS, la probabilité qu'elle soit exploitée dans les 30 prochains jours est de 0.24 %, ce qui la place devant 14.0 % des CVE référencées.
Que faire ?
- Vérifiez si Linux (versions 5.10.71, <=*, <=5.4.*, 5.15, <313bbd1990b6ddfdaa7da098d0c56b098a833572, 5.4.151, <2c204cf594df3b9468368dc9d0b24d482d93cda7, <=5.10.*, 0, <=5.14.*, <9bee85de2c8155388c09a2e1530a243ec1c96f05, <ed2adf69e29848d1eb9df99633dde655421c92ed, 5.14.10, <3.9, 01e59e467ecf976c782eecd4dc99644802cc60e2, 3.9) est présent sur votre parc.
- Appliquez le correctif ou la version corrigée indiqués dans les références de l'éditeur.
- À défaut de correctif, limitez l'exposition (filtrage réseau, désactivation du composant).
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