CVE-2021-47180 NFC: nci: fix memory leak in nci_allocate_device

2024-03-2509:16:29

Linux

github.com

linux kernel vulnerability

nfc

memory leak

nci_allocate_device

nfcmrvl_disconnect

hci_dev

struct nci_dev

kmalloc

kzalloc

nci_hci_allocate

nfcmrvl_nci_register_dev

nfcmrvl_probe

usb_probe_interface

usb_set_configuration

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.1%

JSON

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

NFC: nci: fix memory leak in nci_allocate_device

nfcmrvl_disconnect fails to free the hci_dev field in struct nci_dev.
Fix this by freeing hci_dev in nci_free_device.

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888111ea6800 (size 1024):
comm “kworker/1:0”, pid 19, jiffies 4294942308 (age 13.580s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 60 fd 0c 81 88 ff ff …`…
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 …
backtrace:
[<000000004bc25d43>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:552 [inline]
[<000000004bc25d43>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:682 [inline]
[<000000004bc25d43>] nci_hci_allocate+0x21/0xd0 net/nfc/nci/hci.c:784
[<00000000c59cff92>] nci_allocate_device net/nfc/nci/core.c:1170 [inline]
[<00000000c59cff92>] nci_allocate_device+0x10b/0x160 net/nfc/nci/core.c:1132
[<00000000006e0a8e>] nfcmrvl_nci_register_dev+0x10a/0x1c0 drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/main.c:153
[<000000004da1b57e>] nfcmrvl_probe+0x223/0x290 drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/usb.c:345
[<00000000d506aed9>] usb_probe_interface+0x177/0x370 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
[<00000000bc632c92>] really_probe+0x159/0x4a0 drivers/base/dd.c:554
[<00000000f5009125>] driver_probe_device+0x84/0x100 drivers/base/dd.c:740
[<000000000ce658ca>] __device_attach_driver+0xee/0x110 drivers/base/dd.c:846
[<000000007067d05f>] bus_for_each_drv+0xb7/0x100 drivers/base/bus.c:431
[<00000000f8e13372>] __device_attach+0x122/0x250 drivers/base/dd.c:914
[<000000009cf68860>] bus_probe_device+0xc6/0xe0 drivers/base/bus.c:491
[<00000000359c965a>] device_add+0x5be/0xc30 drivers/base/core.c:3109
[<00000000086e4bd3>] usb_set_configuration+0x9d9/0xb90 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2164
[<00000000ca036872>] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8c/0xc0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
[<00000000d40d36f6>] usb_probe_device+0x5c/0x140 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
[<00000000bc632c92>] really_probe+0x159/0x4a0 drivers/base/dd.c:554

CNA Affected

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    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "include/net/nfc/nci_core.h",
      "net/nfc/nci/core.c",
      "net/nfc/nci/hci.c"
    ],
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