5.5

CVE-2024-50214

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

drm/connector: hdmi: Fix memory leak in drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic()

modprobe drm_connector_test and then rmmod drm_connector_test,
the following memory leak occurs.

The `mode` allocated in drm_mode_duplicate() called by
drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic() is not freed, which cause the memory leak:

	unreferenced object 0xffffff80cb0ee400 (size 128):
	  comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1948, jiffies 4294950339
	  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
	    14 44 02 00 80 07 d8 07 04 08 98 08 00 00 38 04  .D............8.
	    3c 04 41 04 65 04 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  <.A.e...........
	  backtrace (crc 90e9585c):
	    [<00000000ec42e3d7>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
	    [<00000000d0ef055a>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x26c/0x2f4
	    [<00000000c2062161>] drm_mode_duplicate+0x44/0x19c
	    [<00000000f96c74aa>] drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic+0x88/0x98
	    [<00000000d8f2c8b4>] 0xffffffdc982a4868
	    [<000000005d164dbc>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac
	    [<000000006fb23398>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec
	    [<000000006ea56ca0>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
	    [<000000000676063f>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
	......

Free `mode` by using drm_kunit_display_mode_from_cea_vic()
to fix it.
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.11 < 6.11.7
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc2
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc3
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc4
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc5
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.04% 0.088
CVSS Metriken
Source 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
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 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.