Memory Leak Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006679
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Jun 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jun 2020

CVE-2019-20810  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Leak go7007_snd_init in drivers/media/usb/go7007/snd-go7007.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6 does not call snd_card_free for a failure path, which causes a memory leak, aka CID-9453264ef586.

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