Bug 1850249 (CVE-2019-20810)

Summary: CVE-2019-20810 kernel: go7007_snd_init in drivers/media/usb/go7007/snd-go7007.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6 does not call snd_card_free for a failure path, which causes a memory leak
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Michael Kaplan <mkaplan>
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Description Michael Kaplan 2020-06-23 19:44:37 UTC
go7007_snd_init in drivers/media/usb/go7007/snd-go7007.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6 does not call snd_card_free for a failure path, which causes a memory leak, aka CID-9453264ef586.

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9453264ef58638ce8976121ac44c07a3ef375983

Comment 1 Michael Kaplan 2020-06-23 19:44:57 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1850250]

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2020-06-23 22:02:15 UTC
This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.6 kernel rebases.