Bug 2053552 (CVE-2022-24959) - CVE-2022-24959 kernel: memory leak in yam_siocdevprivate() in drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
Summary: CVE-2022-24959 kernel: memory leak in yam_siocdevprivate() in drivers/net/ham...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-24959
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2053553 2070608 2070609
Blocks: 2053554
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Reported: 2022-02-11 14:08 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2022-12-31 23:35 UTC (History)
45 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel 5.17-rc2
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A memory leak was found in the yam_siocdevprivate() function of the YAM driver for AX.25. This issue can result in a denial of service.
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-02-11 14:08:29 UTC 
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. There is a memory leak in yam_siocdevprivate in drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c.

Reference and upstream patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=29eb31542787e1019208a2e1047bb7c76c069536
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-02-11 14:09:23 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2053553]
Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2022-02-11 15:37:28 UTC 
This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.16.5 stable kernel updates.
Comment 3 juneau 2022-02-11 16:36:03 UTC 
Services notaffected per kernel analysis.
Comment 6 Rohit Keshri 2022-03-31 14:25:34 UTC 
There was no shipped kernel version that was seen affected by this problem. These files are not built in our source code.
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