Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-KERNELHEADERS-6374964
  • published5 Mar 2024
  • disclosed29 Feb 2024

Introduced: 29 Feb 2024

CVE-2023-52475  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by Centos.

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

Input: powermate - fix use-after-free in powermate_config_complete

syzbot has found a use-after-free bug [1] in the powermate driver. This happens when the device is disconnected, which leads to a memory free from the powermate_device struct. When an asynchronous control message completes after the kfree and its callback is invoked, the lock does not exist anymore and hence the bug.

Use usb_kill_urb() on pm->config to cancel any in-progress requests upon device disconnection.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0434ac83f907a1dbdd1e