CVE-2021-47024
kernel: vsock/virtio: free queued packets when closing socket
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · February 28, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vsock/virtio: free queued packets when closing socket
As reported by syzbot [1], there is a memory leak while closing the socket. We partially solved this issue with commit ac03046ece2b ("vsock/virtio: free packets during the socket release"), but we forgot to drain the RX queue when the socket is definitely closed by the scheduled work.
To avoid future issues, let's use the new virtio_transport_remove_sock() to drain the RX queue before removing the socket from the af_vsock lists calling vsock_remove_sock().
[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=24452624fc4c571eedd9
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE-402 · Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')