In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: macb: drop in-flight Tx SKBs on close
The MACB driver has since forever leaked the outgoing SKBs that have not yet been marked as completed. They live in queue->tx_skb which gets freed without remorse nor checking.
macb_free_consistent() gets called in a few codepaths, but only close will trigger the added expressions. In macb_open() and macb_alloc_consistent() failure cases, queues tx_skb just got allocated and are empty.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/109241d9880488aafd8e104832b4d4859ad57244
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2143fdc0ce27adbb1caaa1a97e0bfb9f3750aef4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26b131b2d5b55a81ef6182769d28105a870c0eb2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27f575836cfebbf872dec020428742b10650a955
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6124bd785073659c99385094657b77382ebce11b