Skip to main content

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2021-47133

Severity Medium
Score 5.5/10

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: amd_sfh: Fix memory leak in amd_sfh_work Kmemleak tool detected a memory leak in the amd_sfh driver. ==================== unreferenced object 0xffff88810228ada0 (size 32): comm "insmod", pid 3968, jiffies 4295056001 (age 775.792s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 20 73 1f 81 88 ff ff 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de . s............. 22 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 01 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 "............... backtrace: [<000000007b4c8799>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x163/0x4f0 [<0000000005326893>] amd_sfh_get_report+0xa4/0x1d0 [amd_sfh] [<000000002a9e5ec4>] amdtp_hid_request+0x62/0x80 [amd_sfh] [<00000000b8a95807>] sensor_hub_get_feature+0x145/0x270 [hid_sensor_hub] [<00000000fda054ee>] hid_sensor_parse_common_attributes+0x215/0x460 [hid_sensor_iio_common] [<0000000021279ecf>] hid_accel_3d_probe+0xff/0x4a0 [hid_sensor_accel_3d] [<00000000915760ce>] platform_probe+0x6a/0xd0 [<0000000060258a1f>] really_probe+0x192/0x620 [<00000000fa812f2d>] driver_probe_device+0x14a/0x1d0 [<000000005e79f7fd>] __device_attach_driver+0xbd/0x110 [<0000000070d15018>] bus_for_each_drv+0xfd/0x160 [<0000000013a3c312>] __device_attach+0x18b/0x220 [<000000008c7b4afc>] device_initial_probe+0x13/0x20 [<00000000e6e99665>] bus_probe_device+0xfe/0x120 [<00000000833fa90b>] device_add+0x6a6/0xe00 [<00000000fa901078>] platform_device_add+0x180/0x380 ==================== The fix is to freeing request_list entry once the processed entry is removed from the request_list.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)

'Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)' is a weakness that occurs when software doesn't effectively release allocated memory after it is used. If not addressed, this enables attackers to launch denial of service attacks (by crashing or hanging the program) or take advantage of other unexpected behavior resulting from low memory conditions.

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published