CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-21724

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Published: Feb 26, 2021 | Modified: Mar 04, 2021
CVSS 3.x
4.4
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A ZTE product has a memory leak vulnerability. Due to the products improper handling of memory release in certain scenarios, a local attacker with device permissions repeatedly attenuated the optical signal to cause memory leak and abnormal service. This affects: ZXR10 8900E, all versions up to V3.03.20R2B30P1.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Zxr10_8900e_firmware Zte * 3.03.20r2b30p1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

  • Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
  • For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
  • When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
  • To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References