Memory Leak Affecting kernel-headers package, versions <0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELHEADERS-6864994
- published18 May 2024
- disclosed17 May 2024
Introduced: 17 May 2024
CVE-2023-52698 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-headers to version 0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:9315.
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 RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
calipso: fix memory leak in netlbl_calipso_add_pass()
If IPv6 support is disabled at boot (ipv6.disable=1), the calipso_init() -> netlbl_calipso_ops_register() function isn't called, and the netlbl_calipso_ops_get() function always returns NULL. In this case, the netlbl_calipso_add_pass() function allocates memory for the doi_def variable but doesn't free it with the calipso_doi_free().
BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888011d68180 (size 64): comm "syz-executor.1", pid 10746, jiffies 4295410986 (age 17.928s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<...>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:552 [inline] [<...>] netlbl_calipso_add_pass net/netlabel/netlabel_calipso.c:76 [inline] [<...>] netlbl_calipso_add+0x22e/0x4f0 net/netlabel/netlabel_calipso.c:111 [<...>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22f/0x330 net/netlink/genetlink.c:739 [<...>] genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:783 [inline] [<...>] genl_rcv_msg+0x341/0x5a0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:800 [<...>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x14d/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2515 [<...>] genl_rcv+0x29/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:811 [<...>] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1313 [inline] [<...>] netlink_unicast+0x54b/0x800 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339 [<...>] netlink_sendmsg+0x90a/0xdf0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1934 [<...>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:651 [inline] [<...>] sock_sendmsg+0x157/0x190 net/socket.c:671 [<...>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x712/0x870 net/socket.c:2342 [<...>] ___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x170 net/socket.c:2396 [<...>] __sys_sendmsg+0xea/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2429 [<...>] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [<...>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6
Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller
[PM: merged via the LSM tree at Jakub Kicinski request]
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-52698
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/321b3a5592c8a9d6b654c7c64833ea67dbb33149
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36e19f84634aaa94f543fedc0a07588949638d53
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/408bbd1e1746fe33e51f4c81c2febd7d3841d031
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44a88650ba55e6a7f2ec485d2c2413ba7e216f01
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a8f811a146aa2a0230f8edb2e9f4b6609aab8da
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4529a08d3704c17ea9c7277d180e46b99250ded
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec4e9d630a64df500641892f4e259e8149594a99
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f14d36e6e97fe935a20e0ceb159c100f90b6627c
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00016.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html