Bug 2334808 (CVE-2024-56741) - CVE-2024-56741 kernel: apparmor: test: Fix memory leak for aa_unpack_strdup()
Summary: CVE-2024-56741 kernel: apparmor: test: Fix memory leak for aa_unpack_strdup()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-56741
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2024-12-29 12:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-16 05:21 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-29 12:01:21 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

apparmor: test: Fix memory leak for aa_unpack_strdup()

The string allocated by kmemdup() in aa_unpack_strdup() is not
freed and cause following memory leaks, free them to fix it.

	unreferenced object 0xffffff80c6af8a50 (size 8):
	  comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 225, jiffies 4294894407
	  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
	    74 65 73 74 69 6e 67 00                          testing.
	  backtrace (crc 5eab668b):
	    [<0000000001e3714d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
	    [<000000006e6c7776>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x300/0x3e0
	    [<000000006870467c>] kmemdup_noprof+0x34/0x60
	    [<000000001176bb03>] aa_unpack_strdup+0xd0/0x18c
	    [<000000008ecde918>] policy_unpack_test_unpack_strdup_with_null_name+0xf8/0x3ec
	    [<0000000032ef8f77>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac
	    [<00000000f3edea23>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec
	    [<00000000adf936cf>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
	    [<0000000041bb1628>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
	unreferenced object 0xffffff80c2a29090 (size 8):
	  comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 227, jiffies 4294894409
	  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
	    74 65 73 74 69 6e 67 00                          testing.
	  backtrace (crc 5eab668b):
	    [<0000000001e3714d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
	    [<000000006e6c7776>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x300/0x3e0
	    [<000000006870467c>] kmemdup_noprof+0x34/0x60
	    [<000000001176bb03>] aa_unpack_strdup+0xd0/0x18c
	    [<0000000046a45c1a>] policy_unpack_test_unpack_strdup_with_name+0xd0/0x3c4
	    [<0000000032ef8f77>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac
	    [<00000000f3edea23>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec
	    [<00000000adf936cf>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
	    [<0000000041bb1628>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-30 05:07:47 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122925-CVE-2024-56741-3dbc@gregkh/T

Comment 2 TEJ RATHI 2025-05-16 05:21:51 UTC
This CVE has been rejected upstream: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025030336-REJECTED-039a@gregkh/


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