vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-50214): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 9, 2024
Added
Feb 20, 2025
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

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