ax25: Fix reference count leak issues of ax25_dev (Linux Linux)

CVE-2024-38602
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.21 % · percentile 12 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ax25: Fix reference count leak issues of ax25_dev The ax25_addr_ax25dev() and ax25_dev_device_down() exist a reference count leak issue of the object "ax25_dev". Memory leak issue in ax25_addr_ax25dev(): The reference count of the object "ax25_dev" can be increased multiple times in ax25_addr_ax25dev(). This will cause a memory leak. Memory leak issues in ax25_dev_device_down(): The reference count of ax25_dev is set to 1 in ax25_dev_device_up() and then increase the reference count when ax25_dev is added to ax25_dev_list. As a result, the reference count of ax25_dev is 2. But when the device is shutting down. The ax25_dev_device_down() drops the reference count once or twice depending on if we goto unlock_put or not, which will cause memory leak. As for the issue of ax25_addr_ax25dev(), it is impossible for one pointer to be on a list twice. So add a break in ax25_addr_ax25dev(). As for the issue of ax25_dev_device_down(), increase the reference count of ax25_dev once in ax25_dev_device_up() and decrease the reference count of ax25_dev after it is removed from the ax25_dev_list.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b < ae467750a3765dd1092eb29f58247950a2f9b60c ; affected d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b < 38eb01edfdaa1562fa00429be2e33f45383b1b3a ; affected d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b < 81d8240b0a243b3ddd8fa8aa172f1acc2f7cc8f3 ; affected d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b < 1ea02699c7557eeb35ccff2bd822de1b3e09d868 ; affected d01ffb9eee4af165d83b08dd73ebdf9fe94a519b < b505e0319852b08a3a716b64620168eab21f4ced ; affected ef0a2a0565727a48f2e36a2c461f8b1e3a61922d
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.17 ; unaffected 0 < 5.17 ; unaffected 6.1.93 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.33 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.8.12 ≤ 6.8.* ; unaffected 6.9.3 ≤ 6.9.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD