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Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2021-47344

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: zr364xx: fix memory leak in zr364xx_start_readpipe syzbot reported memory leak in zr364xx driver. The problem was in non-freed urb in case of usb_submit_urb() fail. backtrace: [<ffffffff82baedf6>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:561 [inline] [<ffffffff82baedf6>] usb_alloc_urb+0x66/0xe0 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:74 [<ffffffff82f7cce8>] zr364xx_start_readpipe+0x78/0x130 drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/zr364xx.c:1022 [<ffffffff84251dfc>] zr364xx_board_init drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/zr364xx.c:1383 [inline] [<ffffffff84251dfc>] zr364xx_probe+0x6a3/0x851 drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/zr364xx.c:1516 [<ffffffff82bb6507>] usb_probe_interface+0x177/0x370 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396 [<ffffffff826018a9>] really_probe+0x159/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:576

  • 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.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published