Bug 2239820

Summary:	kernel: memory leak in drivers/media/cec/core/cec-api.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Rohit Keshri <rkeshri>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Description Rohit Keshri 2023-09-20 11:01:40 UTC

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8.6. drivers/media/cec/core/cec-api.c leaks one byte of kernel memory on specific hardware to unprivileged users, because of directly assigning log_addrs with a hole in the struct.

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.6
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6c42227c3467549ddc65efe99c869021d2f4a570

Comment 1 Rohit Keshri 2023-09-25 12:21:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2239712 ***