5.5

CVE-2023-53468

ubifs: Fix memory leak in alloc_wbufs()

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

ubifs: Fix memory leak in alloc_wbufs()

kmemleak reported a sequence of memory leaks, and show them as following:

  unreferenced object 0xffff8881575f8400 (size 1024):
    comm "mount", pid 19625, jiffies 4297119604 (age 20.383s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    backtrace:
      [<ffffffff8176cecd>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150
      [<ffffffffa0406b2b>] ubifs_mount+0x307b/0x7170 [ubifs]
      [<ffffffff819fa8fd>] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0
      [<ffffffff81936f2d>] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230
      [<ffffffff819b2bd4>] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0
      [<ffffffff819b37aa>] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270
      [<ffffffff83c14295>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
      [<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

  unreferenced object 0xffff8881798a6e00 (size 512):
    comm "mount", pid 19677, jiffies 4297121912 (age 37.816s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
      6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
    backtrace:
      [<ffffffff8176cecd>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150
      [<ffffffffa0418342>] ubifs_wbuf_init+0x52/0x480 [ubifs]
      [<ffffffffa0406ca5>] ubifs_mount+0x31f5/0x7170 [ubifs]
      [<ffffffff819fa8fd>] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0
      [<ffffffff81936f2d>] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230
      [<ffffffff819b2bd4>] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0
      [<ffffffff819b37aa>] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270
      [<ffffffff83c14295>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
      [<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The problem is that the ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error in the
loop which in the alloc_wbufs(), then the wbuf->buf and wbuf->inodes
that were successfully alloced before are not freed.

Fix it by adding error hanging path in alloc_wbufs() which frees
the memory alloced before when ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 2.6.27 < 5.4.235
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.173
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.100
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.18
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.2.5
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Typ Quelle Score Percentile
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CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.