CVE-2024-50214

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.11-6.11.6 - Use-After-Free in drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic()

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/connector: hdmi: Fix memory leak in drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic() modprobe drm_connector_test and then rmmod drm_connector_test, the following memory leak occurs. The `mode` allocated in drm_mode_duplicate() called by drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic() is not freed, which cause the memory leak: unreferenced object 0xffffff80cb0ee400 (size 128): comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1948, jiffies 4294950339 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 14 44 02 00 80 07 d8 07 04 08 98 08 00 00 38 04 .D............8. 3c 04 41 04 65 04 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 <.A.e........... backtrace (crc 90e9585c): [<00000000ec42e3d7>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40 [<00000000d0ef055a>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x26c/0x2f4 [<00000000c2062161>] drm_mode_duplicate+0x44/0x19c [<00000000f96c74aa>] drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic+0x88/0x98 [<00000000d8f2c8b4>] 0xffffffdc982a4868 [<000000005d164dbc>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac [<000000006fb23398>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec [<000000006ea56ca0>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374 [<000000000676063f>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 ...... Free `mode` by using drm_kunit_display_mode_from_cea_vic() to fix it.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 10.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 6.11.0 - 6.11.7linux
Linux/Linux < 6.11
Linux/Linux 6.11
Linux/Linux 6.11.7 - 6.11.*
Linux/Linux 6.12
Linux/Linux abb6f74973e20956d42e8227dde6fb4e92502c14 - 926163342a2e7595d950e84c17c693b1272bd491
Linux/Linux abb6f74973e20956d42e8227dde6fb4e92502c14 - df2b00685cd33cd85be8910c7d6d22c4ebbf18bb
linux/linux_kernel 6.12 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.11 - 6.11.7
Published Nov 09, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026