Bug 2347927 (CVE-2022-49661) - CVE-2022-49661 kernel: can: gs_usb: gs_usb_open/close(): fix memory leak
Summary: CVE-2022-49661 kernel: can: gs_usb: gs_usb_open/close(): fix memory leak
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49661
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-02-26 03:11 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-02-27 08:09 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:11:37 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

can: gs_usb: gs_usb_open/close(): fix memory leak

The gs_usb driver appears to suffer from a malady common to many USB
CAN adapter drivers in that it performs usb_alloc_coherent() to
allocate a number of USB request blocks (URBs) for RX, and then later
relies on usb_kill_anchored_urbs() to free them, but this doesn't
actually free them. As a result, this may be leaking DMA memory that's
been used by the driver.

This commit is an adaptation of the techniques found in the esd_usb2
driver where a similar design pattern led to a memory leak. It
explicitly frees the RX URBs and their DMA memory via a call to
usb_free_coherent(). Since the RX URBs were allocated in the
gs_can_open(), we remove them in gs_can_close() rather than in the
disconnect function as was done in esd_usb2.

For more information, see the 928150fad41b ("can: esd_usb2: fix memory
leak").

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-27 07:57:44 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022622-CVE-2022-49661-c53c@gregkh/T


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