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CVE-2022-48924

Disclosure Date: August 22, 2024 •
CVE-2022-48924 CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5
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Description

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

thermal: int340x: fix memory leak in int3400_notify()

It is easy to hit the below memory leaks in my TigerLake platform:

unreferenced object 0xffff927c8b91dbc0 (size 32):
comm “kworker/0:2”, pid 112, jiffies 4294893323 (age 83.604s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):

4e 41 4d 45 3d 49 4e 54 33 34 30 30 20 54 68 65  NAME=INT3400 The
72 6d 61 6c 00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5  rmal.kkkkkkkkkk.

backtrace:

[<ffffffff9c502c3e>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x2fe/0x4a0
[<ffffffff9c7b7c15>] kvasprintf+0x65/0xd0
[<ffffffff9c7b7d6e>] kasprintf+0x4e/0x70
[<ffffffffc04cb662>] int3400_notify+0x82/0x120 [int3400_thermal]
[<ffffffff9c8b7358>] acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x54/0x71
[<ffffffff9c88f1a7>] acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x17/0x30
[<ffffffff9c2c2c0a>] process_one_work+0x21a/0x3f0
[<ffffffff9c2c2e2a>] worker_thread+0x4a/0x3b0
[<ffffffff9c2cb4dd>] kthread+0xfd/0x130
[<ffffffff9c201c1f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

Fix it by calling kfree() accordingly.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Offensive Application
Unknown
Utility Class
Unknown
Ports
Unknown
OS
Unknown
Vulnerable Versions
Linux f0ddc5184b01
Linux not down converted
Prerequisites
Unknown
Discovered By
Unknown
PoC Author
Unknown
Metasploit Module
Unknown
Reporter
Unknown

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel
Technical Analysis