Resource Leak Affecting kernel-tools package, versions <0:4.18.0-477.74.1.el8_8

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

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

platform/x86: wmi: Fix opening of char device

Since commit fa1f68db6ca7 ("drivers: misc: pass miscdevice pointer via file private data"), the miscdevice stores a pointer to itself inside filp->private_data, which means that private_data will not be NULL when wmi_char_open() is called. This might cause memory corruption should wmi_char_open() be unable to find its driver, something which can happen when the associated WMI device is deleted in wmi_free_devices().

Fix the problem by using the miscdevice pointer to retrieve the WMI device data associated with a char device using container_of(). This also avoids wmi_char_open() picking a wrong WMI device bound to a driver with the same name as the original driver.

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-52864
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36d85fa7ae0d6be651c1a745191fa7ef055db43e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44a96796d25809502c75771d40ee693c2e44724e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fb0eed09e1470cd4021ff52b2b9dfcbcee4c203
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf098e937dd125c0317a0d6f261ac2a950a233d6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d426a2955e45a95b2282764105fcfb110a540453
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0bf076b734a2fab92d8fddc2b8b03462eee7097
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eba9ac7abab91c8f6d351460239108bef5e7a0b6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb7b06b59c6887659c6ed0ecd3110835eecbb6a3