CVSS 5.5 · Medium EPSS 0,16%
Kerentanan Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime pada linux kernel. Skor CVSS 3.1 5.5 (Medium) menurut NVD.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: fix memory leak of remain_skbs hif_dev->remain_skb is allocated and used exclusively in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream(). It is implied that an allocated remain_skb is processed and subsequently freed (in error paths) only during the next call of ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream(). So, if the urbs are deallocated between those two calls due to the device deinitialization or suspend, it is possible that ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream() is not called next time and the allocated remain_skb is leaked. Our local Syzkaller instance was able to trigger that. remain_skb makes sense when receiving two consecutive urbs which are logically linked together, i.e. a specific data field from the first skb indicates a cached skb to be allocated, memcpy'd with some data and subsequently processed in the next call to ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream(). Urbs deallocation supposedly makes that link irrelevant so we need to free the cached skb in those cases. Fix the leak by introducing a function to explicitly free remain_skb (if it is not NULL) when the rx urbs have been deallocated. remain_skb is NULL when it has not been allocated at all (hif_dev struct is kzalloced) or when it has been processed in next call to ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream(). Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
· uraikan di kalkulator | Vendor | Produk | Versi terdampak |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux kernel | Versi 2.6.35 hingga sebelum 4.19.283 |
| linux | linux kernel | Versi 4.20 hingga sebelum 5.4.243 |
| linux | linux kernel | Versi 5.5 hingga sebelum 5.10.180 |
| linux | linux kernel | Versi 5.11 hingga sebelum 5.15.111 |
| linux | linux kernel | Versi 5.16 hingga sebelum 6.1.28 |
| linux | linux kernel | Versi 6.2 hingga sebelum 6.2.15 |
| linux | linux kernel | Versi 6.3 hingga sebelum 6.3.2 |