Linux Kernel up to 6.10.6 DRM memory leak

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.10.6. Affected is an unknown function of the component DRM. Such manipulation leads to memory leak. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-44980. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.10.6. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component DRM. 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. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Fix opregion leak Being part o the display, ideally the setup and cleanup would be done by display itself. However this is a bigger refactor that needs to be done on both i915 and xe. For now, just fix the leak: unreferenced object 0xffff8881a0300008 (size 192): comm "modprobe", pid 4354, jiffies 4295647021 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 87 27 81 88 ff ff 18 80 9b 00 00 c9 ff ff ...'............ 18 81 9b 00 00 c9 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc 99260e31): [] kmemleak_alloc+0x4b/0x80 [] kmalloc_trace_noprof+0x312/0x3d0 [] intel_opregion_setup+0x89/0x700 [xe] [] xe_display_init_noirq+0x2f/0x90 [xe] [] xe_device_probe+0x7a3/0xbf0 [xe] [] xe_pci_probe+0x333/0x5b0 [xe] [] local_pci_probe+0x48/0xb0 [] pci_device_probe+0xc8/0x280 [] really_probe+0xf8/0x390 [] __driver_probe_device+0x8a/0x170 [] driver_probe_device+0x23/0xb0 [] __driver_attach+0xc7/0x190 [] bus_for_each_dev+0x7d/0xd0 [] driver_attach+0x1e/0x30 [] bus_add_driver+0x117/0x250 (cherry picked from commit 6f4e43a2f771b737d991142ec4f6d4b7ff31fbb4)

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-44980 since 08/21/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 212724 (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7154-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.10.7 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch f7ecdd9853dd/f4b2a0ae1a31 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 (212724). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.10.0
• 6.10.1
• 6.10.2
• 6.10.3
• 6.10.4
• 6.10.5
• 6.10.6

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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