CVE-2023-53264

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

clk: imx: clk-imxrt1050: fix memory leak in imxrt1050_clocks_probe

Use devm_of_iomap() instead of of_iomap() to automatically handle the unused ioremap region. If any error occurs, regions allocated by kzalloc() will leak, but using devm_kzalloc() instead will automatically free the memory using devm_kfree().

Also, fix error handling of hws by adding unregister_hws label, which unregisters remaining hws when iomap failed.

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/02e54db221bb001b32f839e0149ee8d890ab9aa1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fbdfd2542252e4c02e8158a06b7c0c9cfd40f99
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1839032251a66f2ae5a043c495532830a55d28c4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b280598ab3bd8a2dc8b96a12530d5b1ee7a8f4a