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CVE-2024-50214
published 2024-11-09

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…

PriorityP418medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.20%
10.4th percentile
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 ] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40 [] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x26c/0x2f4 [] drm_mode_duplicate+0x44/0x19c [] drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic+0x88/0x98 [] 0xffffffdc982a4868 [] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac [] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec [] kthread+0x2e8/0x374 [] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 ...... Free `mode` by using drm_kunit_display_mode_from_cea_vic() to fix it.

Affected

9 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.11.7-1 (forky)linux 6.11.7-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= abb6f74973e20956d42e8227dde6fb4e92502c14 < df2b00685cd33cd85be8910c7d6d22c4ebbf18bbdf2b00685cd33cd85be8910c7d6d22c4ebbf18bb
linuxlinux>= abb6f74973e20956d42e8227dde6fb4e92502c14 < 926163342a2e7595d950e84c17c693b1272bd491926163342a2e7595d950e84c17c693b1272bd491
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.11.7-16.11.7-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.11.7-16.11.7-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.11.0-18.186.11.0-18.18
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.11 < 6.11.76.11.7

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5LOW
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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