CVE-2021-47320 nfs: fix acl memory leak of posix_acl_create()

What is CVE-2021-47320?

CVE-2021-47320 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfs: fix acl memory leak of posix_acl_create()

When looking into another nfs xfstests report, I found acl and default_acl in nfs3_proc_create() and nfs3_proc_mknod() error paths are possibly leaked. Fix them in advance.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-47320?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2021-47320?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2021-47320 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47320 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47320, GHSA-pwqm-5jrg-2v3g, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47320.