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Memory Leak Affecting kernel-debug-core package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.8.1.el8_10

Severity

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high

Based on AlmaLinux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALMALINUX8-KERNELDEBUGCORE-7415250
  • published2 Jul 2024
  • disclosed2 Jul 2024
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Introduced: 2 Jul 2024

CVE-2023-52560  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade AlmaLinux:8 kernel-debug-core to version 0:4.18.0-553.8.1.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALSA-2024:4211.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug-core package and not the kernel-debug-core package as distributed by AlmaLinux. See How to fix? for AlmaLinux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

mm/damon/vaddr-test: fix memory leak in damon_do_test_apply_three_regions()

When CONFIG_DAMON_VADDR_KUNIT_TEST=y and making CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y and CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN=y, the below memory leak is detected.

Since commit 9f86d624292c ("mm/damon/vaddr-test: remove unnecessary variables"), the damon_destroy_ctx() is removed, but still call damon_new_target() and damon_new_region(), the damon_region which is allocated by kmem_cache_alloc() in damon_new_region() and the damon_target which is allocated by kmalloc in damon_new_target() are not freed. And the damon_region which is allocated in damon_new_region() in damon_set_regions() is also not freed.

So use damon_destroy_target to free all the damon_regions and damon_target.

unreferenced object 0xffff888107c9a940 (size 64):
  comm &#34;kunit_try_catch&#34;, pid 1069, jiffies 4294670592 (age 732.761s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b  ............kkkk
    60 c7 9c 07 81 88 ff ff f8 cb 9c 07 81 88 ff ff  `...............
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff817e0167&gt;] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0
    [&lt;ffffffff819c11cf&gt;] damon_new_target+0x3f/0x1b0
    [&lt;ffffffff819c7d55&gt;] damon_do_test_apply_three_regions.constprop.0+0x95/0x3e0
    [&lt;ffffffff819c82be&gt;] damon_test_apply_three_regions1+0x21e/0x260
    [&lt;ffffffff829fce6a&gt;] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90
    [&lt;ffffffff81237cf6&gt;] kthread+0x2b6/0x380
    [&lt;ffffffff81097add&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
    [&lt;ffffffff81003791&gt;] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
unreferenced object 0xffff8881079cc740 (size 56):
  comm &#34;kunit_try_catch&#34;, pid 1069, jiffies 4294670592 (age 732.761s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 00 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkk....kkkk
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff819bc492&gt;] damon_new_region+0x22/0x1c0
    [&lt;ffffffff819c7d91&gt;] damon_do_test_apply_three_regions.constprop.0+0xd1/0x3e0
    [&lt;ffffffff819c82be&gt;] damon_test_apply_three_regions1+0x21e/0x260
    [&lt;ffffffff829fce6a&gt;] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90
    [&lt;ffffffff81237cf6&gt;] kthread+0x2b6/0x380
    [&lt;ffffffff81097add&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
    [&lt;ffffffff81003791&gt;] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
unreferenced object 0xffff888107c9ac40 (size 64):
  comm &#34;kunit_try_catch&#34;, pid 1071, jiffies 4294670595 (age 732.843s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b  ............kkkk
    a0 cc 9c 07 81 88 ff ff 78 a1 76 07 81 88 ff ff  ........x.v.....
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff817e0167&gt;] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0
    [&lt;ffffffff819c11cf&gt;] damon_new_target+0x3f/0x1b0
    [&lt;ffffffff819c7d55&gt;] damon_do_test_apply_three_regions.constprop.0+0x95/0x3e0
    [&lt;ffffffff819c851e&gt;] damon_test_apply_three_regions2+0x21e/0x260
    [&lt;ffffffff829fce6a&gt;] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90
    [&lt;ffffffff81237cf6&gt;] kthread+0x2b6/0x380
    [&lt;ffffffff81097add&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
    [&lt;ffffffff81003791&gt;] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
unreferenced object 0xffff8881079ccc80 (size 56):
  comm &#34;kunit_try_catch&#34;, pid 1071, jiffies 4294670595 (age 732.843s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 00 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkk....kkkk
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff819bc492&gt;] damon_new_region+0x22/0x1c0
    [&lt;ffffffff819c7d91&gt;] damon_do_test_apply_three_regions.constprop.0+0xd1/0x3e0
    [&lt;ffffffff819c851e&gt;] damon_test_apply_three_regions2+0x21e/0x260
    [&lt;ffffffff829fce6a&gt;] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90
    [&lt;ffffffff81237cf6&gt;] kthread+0x2b6/0x380
    [&lt;ffffffff81097add&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
    [&lt;ffff

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