CVE-2024-44971

net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix a possible memory leak in bcm_sf2_mdio_register()

published September 4, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix a possible memory leak in bcm_sf2_mdio_register()

bcm_sf2_mdio_register() calls of_phy_find_device() and then

phy_device_remove() in a loop to remove existing PHY devices.

of_phy_find_device() eventually calls bus_find_device(), which calls

get_device() on the returned struct device * to increment the refcount.

The current implementation does not decrement the refcount, which causes

memory leak.

This commit adds the missing phy_device_free() call to decrement the

refcount via put_device() to balance the refcount.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00212 · 10.9th percentile
Published
2024-09-04T18:56Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 SEP 18:56Z
    net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix a possible memory leak in bcm_sf2_mdio_register()
    cvelistv5