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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Nov 9, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 13, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

iio: gts-helper: Fix memory leaks in iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table()

modprobe iio-test-gts and rmmod it, then the following memory leak
occurs:

unreferenced object 0xffffff80c810be00 (size 64):
  comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1654, jiffies 4294913981
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    02 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 40 00 00 00  ........ ...@...
    80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 08 00 00  ................
  backtrace (crc a63d875e):
    [<0000000028c1b3c2>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
    [<000000001d6ecc87>] __kmalloc_noprof+0x2bc/0x3c0
    [<00000000393795c1>] devm_iio_init_iio_gts+0x4b4/0x16f4
    [<0000000071bb4b09>] 0xffffffdf052a62e0
    [<000000000315bc18>] 0xffffffdf052a6488
    [<00000000f9dc55b5>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac
    [<00000000175a3fd4>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec
    [<00000000f505065d>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
    [<00000000bbfb0e5d>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
unreferenced object 0xffffff80cbfe9e70 (size 16):
  comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1658, jiffies 4294914015
  hex dump (first 16 bytes):
    10 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ....@...........
  backtrace (crc 857f0cb4):
    [<0000000028c1b3c2>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
    [<000000001d6ecc87>] __kmalloc_noprof+0x2bc/0x3c0
    [<00000000393795c1>] devm_iio_init_iio_gts+0x4b4/0x16f4
    [<0000000071bb4b09>] 0xffffffdf052a62e0
    [<000000007d089d45>] 0xffffffdf052a6864
    [<00000000f9dc55b5>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac
    [<00000000175a3fd4>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec
    [<00000000f505065d>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
    [<00000000bbfb0e5d>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
......

It includes 55 times "size 64" memory leaks, which correspond to 5 times
test_init_iio_gain_scale() calls with gts_test_gains size 10 (10
size(int))
and gts_test_itimes size 5. It also includes 51 times "size 16"
memory leak, which correspond to one time __test_init_iio_gain_scale()
call with gts_test_gains_gain_low size 3 (3
size(int)) and gts_test_itimes
size 5.

The reason is that the per_time_gains[i] is not freed which is allocated in
the "gts->num_itime" for loop in iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table().

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 9, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 9, 2024
Last updated Nov 13, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-50231

GHSA ID

GHSA-ghff-7r8p-2pr4

Source code

No known source code

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