CVE-2023-53529
5.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88_usb
Kmemleak shows the following leak arising from routine in the usb
probe routine:
unreferenced object 0xffff895cb29bba00 (size 512):
comm "(udev-worker)", pid 534, jiffies 4294903932 (age 102751.088s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
77 30 30 30 00 00 00 00 02 2f 2d 2b 30 00 00 00 w000...../-+0...
02 00 2a 28 00 00 00 00 ff 55 ff ff ff 00 00 00 ..*(.....U......
backtrace:
[<ffffffff9265fa36>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x90
[<ffffffffc17eec41>] rtw_usb_probe+0x2f1/0x680 [rtw_usb]
[<ffffffffc03e19fd>] usb_probe_interface+0xdd/0x2e0 [usbcore]
[<ffffffff92b4f2fe>] really_probe+0x18e/0x3d0
[<ffffffff92b4f5b8>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160
[<ffffffff92b4f6bf>] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90
[<ffffffff92b4f8df>] __driver_attach+0xbf/0x1b0
[<ffffffff92b4d350>] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0
[<ffffffff92b4e51e>] bus_add_driver+0x10e/0x210
[<ffffffff92b50935>] driver_register+0x55/0xf0
[<ffffffffc03e0708>] usb_register_driver+0x88/0x140 [usbcore]
[<ffffffff92401153>] do_one_initcall+0x43/0x210
[<ffffffff9254f42a>] do_init_module+0x4a/0x200
[<ffffffff92551d1c>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xac/0x120
[<ffffffff92ee6626>] do_syscall_64+0x56/0x80
[<ffffffff9300006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
The leak was verified to be real by unloading the driver, which resulted
in a dangling pointer to the allocation.
The allocated memory is freed in rtw_usb_intf_deinit().
Affected (1)
Products: Linux: Linux Kernel
Configuration A
| Vulnerable Software | Affected Versions |
|---|---|
| From 5.2 to 6.3.4 |
References (2)
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Patch
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