vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2021-47058: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/29/2024
Added
08/09/2024
Modified
01/28/2025

Description

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

regmap: set debugfs_name to NULL after it is freed

There is a upstream commit cffa4b2122f5("regmap:debugfs:
Fix a memory leak when calling regmap_attach_dev") that
adds a if condition when create name for debugfs_name.
With below function invoking logical, debugfs_name is
freed in regmap_debugfs_exit(), but it is not created again
because of the if condition introduced by above commit.
regmap_reinit_cache()
regmap_debugfs_exit()
...
regmap_debugfs_init()
So, set debugfs_name to NULL after it is freed.

Solution(s)

suse-upgrade-kernel-64kbsuse-upgrade-kernel-64kb-develsuse-upgrade-kernel-defaultsuse-upgrade-kernel-default-basesuse-upgrade-kernel-default-develsuse-upgrade-kernel-develsuse-upgrade-kernel-docssuse-upgrade-kernel-macrossuse-upgrade-kernel-obs-buildsuse-upgrade-kernel-preemptsuse-upgrade-kernel-preempt-develsuse-upgrade-kernel-sourcesuse-upgrade-kernel-symssuse-upgrade-kernel-zfcpdumpsuse-upgrade-reiserfs-kmp-default
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