Linux Kernel up to 6.7.6 dm_sw_fini memory leak

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.10.210/5.15.149/6.1.79/6.6.18/6.7.6. Affected is the function dm_sw_fini. The manipulation leads to memory leak. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-26833. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.10.210/5.15.149/6.1.79/6.6.18/6.7.6. This issue affects the function dm_sw_fini. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory leak vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-401. The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Fix memory leak in dm_sw_fini() After destroying dmub_srv, the memory associated with it is not freed, causing a memory leak: unreferenced object 0xffff896302b45800 (size 1024): comm "(udev-worker)", pid 222, jiffies 4294894636 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 (crc 6265fd77): [] kmalloc_trace+0x29d/0x340 [] dm_dmub_sw_init+0xb4/0x450 [amdgpu] [] dm_sw_init+0x15/0x2b0 [amdgpu] [] amdgpu_device_init+0x1417/0x24e0 [amdgpu] [] amdgpu_driver_load_kms+0x15/0x190 [amdgpu] [] amdgpu_pci_probe+0x187/0x4e0 [amdgpu] [] local_pci_probe+0x3e/0x90 [] pci_device_probe+0xc3/0x230 [] really_probe+0xe2/0x480 [] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160 [] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90 [] __driver_attach+0xce/0x1c0 [] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0 [] bus_add_driver+0x112/0x210 [] driver_register+0x55/0x100 [] do_one_initcall+0x41/0x300 Fix this by freeing dmub_srv after destroying it.

It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-26833 since 02/19/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 246386 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-26833), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 5.10.211, 5.15.150, 6.1.80, 6.6.19, 6.7.7 or 6.8 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch b49b022f7dfc/33f649f1b1ce/58168005337e/10c6b90e9753/541e79265ea7/bae67893578d is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (246386). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.10.210
• 5.15.149
• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.1.3
• 6.1.4
• 6.1.5
• 6.1.6
• 6.1.7
• 6.1.8
• 6.1.9
• 6.1.10
• 6.1.11
• 6.1.12
• 6.1.13
• 6.1.14
• 6.1.15
• 6.1.16
• 6.1.17
• 6.1.18
• 6.1.19
• 6.1.20
• 6.1.21
• 6.1.22
• 6.1.23
• 6.1.24
• 6.1.25
• 6.1.26
• 6.1.27
• 6.1.28
• 6.1.29
• 6.1.30
• 6.1.31
• 6.1.32
• 6.1.33
• 6.1.34
• 6.1.35
• 6.1.36
• 6.1.37
• 6.1.38
• 6.1.39
• 6.1.40
• 6.1.41
• 6.1.42
• 6.1.43
• 6.1.44
• 6.1.45
• 6.1.46
• 6.1.47
• 6.1.48
• 6.1.49
• 6.1.50
• 6.1.51
• 6.1.52
• 6.1.53
• 6.1.54
• 6.1.55
• 6.1.56
• 6.1.57
• 6.1.58
• 6.1.59
• 6.1.60
• 6.1.61
• 6.1.62
• 6.1.63
• 6.1.64
• 6.1.65
• 6.1.66
• 6.1.67
• 6.1.68
• 6.1.69
• 6.1.70
• 6.1.71
• 6.1.72
• 6.1.73
• 6.1.74
• 6.1.75
• 6.1.76
• 6.1.77
• 6.1.78
• 6.1.79
• 6.6.0
• 6.6.1
• 6.6.2
• 6.6.3
• 6.6.4
• 6.6.5
• 6.6.6
• 6.6.7
• 6.6.8
• 6.6.9
• 6.6.10
• 6.6.11
• 6.6.12
• 6.6.13
• 6.6.14
• 6.6.15
• 6.6.16
• 6.6.17
• 6.6.18
• 6.7.0
• 6.7.1
• 6.7.2
• 6.7.3
• 6.7.4
• 6.7.5
• 6.7.6

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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