CVE-2024-50197

pinctrl: intel: platform: fix error path in device_for_each_child_node()

Medium · published November 8, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

pinctrl: intel: platform: fix error path in device_for_each_child_node()

The device_for_each_child_node() loop requires calls to

fwnode_handle_put() upon early returns to decrement the refcount of

the child node and avoid leaking memory if that error path is triggered.

There is one early returns within that loop in

intel_platform_pinctrl_prepare_community(), but fwnode_handle_put() is

missing.

Instead of adding the missing call, the scoped version of the loop can

be used to simplify the code and avoid mistakes in the future if new

early returns are added, as the child node is only used for parsing, and

it is never assigned.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00180 · 7.1th percentile
Published
2024-11-08T05:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 NOV 05:54Z
    pinctrl: intel: platform: fix error path in device_for_each_child_node()
    cvelistv5