CVE-2021-46935

Technical Description

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

binder: fix async_free_space accounting for empty parcels

In 4.13, commit 74310e06be4d ("android: binder: Move buffer out of area shared with user space")

fixed a kernel structure visibility issue. As part of that patch,

sizeof(void *) was used as the buffer size for 0-length data payloads so

the driver could detect abusive clients sending 0-length asynchronous

transactions to a server by enforcing limits on async_free_size.

Unfortunately, on the "free" side, the accounting of async_free_space

did not add the sizeof(void *) back. The result was that up to 8-bytes of

async_free_space were leaked on every async transaction of 8-bytes or

less. These small transactions are uncommon, so this accounting issue

has gone undetected for several years.

The fix is to use "buffer_size" (the allocated buffer size) instead of

"size" (the logical buffer size) when updating the async_free_space

during the free operation. These are

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References