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HistorySep 04, 2024 - 6:56 p.m.

CVE-2024-44971 net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix a possible memory leak in bcm_sf2_mdio_register()

2024-09-0418:56:47
Linux
github.com
2
linux kernel
vulnerability
memory leak
bcm_sf2_mdio_register

AI Score

7.1

Confidence

High

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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

net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix a possible memory leak in bcm_sf2_mdio_register()

bcm_sf2_mdio_register() calls of_phy_find_device() and then
phy_device_remove() in a loop to remove existing PHY devices.
of_phy_find_device() eventually calls bus_find_device(), which calls
get_device() on the returned struct device * to increment the refcount.
The current implementation does not decrement the refcount, which causes
memory leak.

This commit adds the missing phy_device_free() call to decrement the
refcount via put_device() to balance the refcount.

AI Score

7.1

Confidence

High

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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