CVE-2024-50214

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50214
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-50214.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-50214
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-11-09T10:14:26Z
Modified
2025-10-09T21:48:16.724720Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
drm/connector: hdmi: Fix memory leak in drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic()
Details

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

drm/connector: hdmi: Fix memory leak in drmdisplaymodefromcea_vic()

modprobe drmconnectortest and then rmmod drmconnectortest, the following memory leak occurs.

The mode allocated in drmmodeduplicate() called by drmdisplaymodefromcea_vic() is not freed, which cause the memory leak:

unreferenced object 0xffffff80cb0ee400 (size 128):
  comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1948, jiffies 4294950339
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    14 44 02 00 80 07 d8 07 04 08 98 08 00 00 38 04  .D............8.
    3c 04 41 04 65 04 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  <.A.e...........
  backtrace (crc 90e9585c):
    [<00000000ec42e3d7>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
    [<00000000d0ef055a>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x26c/0x2f4
    [<00000000c2062161>] drm_mode_duplicate+0x44/0x19c
    [<00000000f96c74aa>] drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic+0x88/0x98
    [<00000000d8f2c8b4>] 0xffffffdc982a4868
    [<000000005d164dbc>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac
    [<000000006fb23398>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec
    [<000000006ea56ca0>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
    [<000000000676063f>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
......

Free mode by using drmkunitdisplaymodefromceavic() to fix it.

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
abb6f74973e20956d42e8227dde6fb4e92502c14
Fixed
df2b00685cd33cd85be8910c7d6d22c4ebbf18bb
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
abb6f74973e20956d42e8227dde6fb4e92502c14
Fixed
926163342a2e7595d950e84c17c693b1272bd491

Affected versions

v6.*

v6.10
v6.10-rc2
v6.10-rc3
v6.10-rc4
v6.10-rc5
v6.10-rc6
v6.10-rc7
v6.11
v6.11-rc1
v6.11-rc2
v6.11-rc3
v6.11-rc4
v6.11-rc5
v6.11-rc6
v6.11-rc7
v6.11.1
v6.11.2
v6.11.3
v6.11.4
v6.11.5
v6.11.6
v6.12-rc1
v6.12-rc2
v6.12-rc3
v6.12-rc4

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.11.0
Fixed
6.11.7