Bug 2334825 (CVE-2024-56745)

Summary: CVE-2024-56745 kernel: PCI: Fix reset_method_store() memory leak
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-29 12:02:27 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

PCI: Fix reset_method_store() memory leak

In reset_method_store(), a string is allocated via kstrndup() and assigned
to the local "options". options is then used in with strsep() to find
spaces:

  while ((name = strsep(&options, " ")) != NULL) {

If there are no remaining spaces, then options is set to NULL by strsep(),
so the subsequent kfree(options) doesn't free the memory allocated via
kstrndup().

Fix by using a separate tmp_options to iterate with strsep() so options is
preserved.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-30 03:59:23 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122926-CVE-2024-56745-b06b@gregkh/T