CVE-2022-49981

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: hidraw: fix memory leak in hidraw_release()

Free the buffered reports before deleting the list entry.

BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810e72f180 (size 32): comm softirq, pid 0, jiffies 4294945143 (age 16.080s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 64 f3 c6 6a d1 88 07 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d..j………… 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. backtrace: [] kmemdup+0x23/0x50 mm/util.c:128 [] kmemdup include/linux/fortify-string.h:440 [inline] [] hidraw_report_event+0xa2/0x150 drivers/hid/hidraw.c:521 [] hid_report_raw_event+0x27d/0x740 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:1992 [] hid_input_report+0x1ae/0x270 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2065 [] hid_irq_in+0x1ff/0x250 drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c:284 [] __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0xf9/0x230 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1670 [] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x1b6/0x1d0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1747 [] dummy_timer+0x8e4/0x14c0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1988 [] call_timer_fn+0x38/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1474 [] expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1519 [inline] [] __run_timers.part.0+0x316/0x430 kernel/time/timer.c:1790 [] __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1768 [inline] [] run_timer_softirq+0x44/0x90 kernel/time/timer.c:1803 [] __do_softirq+0xe6/0x2ea kernel/softirq.c:571 [] invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:445 [inline] [] __irq_exit_rcu kernel/softirq.c:650 [inline] [] irq_exit_rcu+0xc0/0x110 kernel/softirq.c:662 [] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa2/0xd0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1106 [] asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:649 [] native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline] [] arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline] [] acpi_safe_halt drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:111 [inline] [] acpi_idle_do_entry+0xc0/0xd0 drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:554

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

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

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1bea0bbf66001b0c7bf239a4d70eaf47824d3feb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52a3c62a815161c2dcf38ac421f6c41d8679462b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53c7c4d5d40b45c127cb1193bf3e9670f844c3cf
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e2fa79226580b035b00260d9f240ab9bda4af5d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5623a203cffe2d2b84d2f6c989d9017db1856af
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c06b013f5cbfeafe0a9cfa5a7128604c34e0e517
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfd27a737283313a3e626e97b9d9b2d8d6a94188
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5b7e9611cffec345d62d5bdd8b6e30e89956818