CVE-2022-49661

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel Use-After-Free in gs_usb Driver

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: gs_usb: gs_usb_open/close(): fix memory leak The gs_usb driver appears to suffer from a malady common to many USB CAN adapter drivers in that it performs usb_alloc_coherent() to allocate a number of USB request blocks (URBs) for RX, and then later relies on usb_kill_anchored_urbs() to free them, but this doesn't actually free them. As a result, this may be leaking DMA memory that's been used by the driver. This commit is an adaptation of the techniques found in the esd_usb2 driver where a similar design pattern led to a memory leak. It explicitly frees the RX URBs and their DMA memory via a call to usb_free_coherent(). Since the RX URBs were allocated in the gs_can_open(), we remove them in gs_can_close() rather than in the disconnect function as was done in esd_usb2. For more information, see the 928150fad41b ("can: esd_usb2: fix memory leak").

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0025
EPSS Percentile 15.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (27)
linux/Kernel 3.16.0 - 4.9.323linux
linux/Kernel 4.10.0 - 4.14.288linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.252linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.205linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.54linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.18.11linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.130linux
Linux/Linux < 3.16
Linux/Linux 3.16
Linux/Linux 4.14.288 - 4.14.*
... and 17 more
Published Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026