Bug 2239820 - kernel: memory leak in drivers/media/cec/core/cec-api.c
Summary: kernel: memory leak in drivers/media/cec/core/cec-api.c
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 2239712
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2023-09-20 11:01 UTC by Rohit Keshri
Modified: 2023-09-25 12:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2023-09-25 12:21:05 UTC
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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 ***
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