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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Dec 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 14, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

isofs: avoid memory leak in iocharset

A memleak was found as below:

unreferenced object 0xffff0000d10164d8 (size 8):
comm "pool-udisksd", pid 108217, jiffies 4295408555
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
75 74 66 38 00 cc cc cc utf8....
backtrace (crc de430d31):
[] kmemleak_alloc+0xb8/0xc8
[] __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x380/0x474
[] kstrdup+0x70/0xfc
[] isofs_parse_param+0x228/0x2c0 [isofs]
[] vfs_parse_fs_param+0xf4/0x164
[] vfs_parse_fs_string+0x8c/0xd4
[] vfs_parse_monolithic_sep+0xb0/0xfc
[] generic_parse_monolithic+0x30/0x3c
[] parse_monolithic_mount_data+0x40/0x4c
[] path_mount+0x6c4/0x9ec
[] do_mount+0xac/0xc4
[] __arm64_sys_mount+0x16c/0x2b0
[] invoke_syscall+0x7c/0x104
[] el0_svc_common.constprop.1+0xe0/0x104
[] do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x38
[] el0_svc+0x3c/0x1b8

The opt->iocharset is freed inside the isofs_fill_super function,
But there may be situations where it's not possible to
enter this function.

For example, in the get_tree_bdev_flags function,when
encountering the situation where "Can't mount, would change RO state,"
In such a case, isofs_fill_super will not have the opportunity
to be called,which means that opt->iocharset will not have the chance
to be freed,ultimately leading to a memory leak.

Let's move the memory freeing of opt->iocharset into
isofs_free_fc function.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 27, 2024
Last updated Jan 14, 2025

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-2024-56534

GHSA ID

GHSA-pm64-f9ff-xc6w

Source code

No known source code

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