CVE-2020-15393

In the Linux kernel 4.4 through 5.7.6, usbtest_disconnect in drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c has a memory leak, aka CID-28ebeb8db770.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
• For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
• When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
• To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00071.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=831eebad70a25f55b5745453ac252d4afe997187
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=28ebeb8db77035e058a510ce9bd17c2b9a009dba
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00019.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html
• https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/2/968
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4463-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4465-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4483-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4485-1/