5.5

CVE-2024-50236

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

wifi: ath10k: Fix memory leak in management tx

In the current logic, memory is allocated for storing the MSDU context
during management packet TX but this memory is not being freed during
management TX completion. Similar leaks are seen in the management TX
cleanup logic.

Kmemleak reports this problem as below,

unreferenced object 0xffffff80b64ed250 (size 16):
  comm "kworker/u16:7", pid 148, jiffies 4294687130 (age 714.199s)
  hex dump (first 16 bytes):
    00 2b d8 d8 80 ff ff ff c4 74 e9 fd 07 00 00 00  .+.......t......
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffe6e7b245dc>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e4/0x2d8
    [<ffffffe6e7adde88>] kmalloc_trace+0x48/0x110
    [<ffffffe6bbd765fc>] ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_gen_mgmt_tx_send+0xd4/0x1d8 [ath10k_core]
    [<ffffffe6bbd3eed4>] ath10k_mgmt_over_wmi_tx_work+0x134/0x298 [ath10k_core]
    [<ffffffe6e78d5974>] process_scheduled_works+0x1ac/0x400
    [<ffffffe6e78d60b8>] worker_thread+0x208/0x328
    [<ffffffe6e78dc890>] kthread+0x100/0x1c0
    [<ffffffe6e78166c0>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Free the memory during completion and cleanup to fix the leak.

Protect the mgmt_pending_tx idr_remove() operation in
ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_cleanup_mgmt_tx_send() using ar->data_lock similar to
other instances.

Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 SNOC WLAN.HL.2.0-01387-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.19 < 4.19.323
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.20 < 5.4.285
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.229
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.171
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.116
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.60
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.11.7
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc2
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc3
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc4
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.12 Updaterc5
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.09% 0.26
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
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.