Linux Kernel up to 6.11.6 drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic memory leak

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.11.6. It has been declared as problematic. This impacts the function drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic. Such manipulation leads to memory leak. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-50213. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.11.6. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic. 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/tests: hdmi: Fix memory leaks in drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic() modprobe drm_hdmi_state_helper_test and then rmmod it, 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 0xffffff80ccd18100 (size 128): comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1851, jiffies 4295059695 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 57 62 00 00 80 02 90 02 f0 02 20 03 00 00 e0 01 Wb........ ..... ea 01 ec 01 0d 02 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc c2f1aa95): [] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40 [] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x26c/0x2f4 [] drm_mode_duplicate+0x44/0x19c [] drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic+0x88/0x98 [] 0xffffffedc11ae69c [] 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.

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-50213 since 10/21/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216493 (Ubuntu 24.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7276-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.11.7 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 3bc3fae8a0f2/add4163aca0d 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 databases at Tenable (216493) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-3397). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• Open Source eCryptfs
• Siemens SIMATIC S7
• SUSE openSUSE
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Dell NetWorker
• Dell Avamar
• IBM QRadar SIEM

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.11.0
• 6.11.1
• 6.11.2
• 6.11.3
• 6.11.4
• 6.11.5
• 6.11.6

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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