| From bippy-5f407fcff5a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
| To: <linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org> |
| Reply-to: <cve@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> |
| Subject: CVE-2022-49237: ath11k: add missing of_node_put() to avoid leak |
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| Description |
| =========== |
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| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: |
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| ath11k: add missing of_node_put() to avoid leak |
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| The node pointer is returned by of_find_node_by_type() |
| or of_parse_phandle() with refcount incremented. Calling |
| of_node_put() to aovid the refcount leak. |
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| The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49237 to this issue. |
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| Affected and fixed versions |
| =========================== |
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| Issue introduced in 5.17 with commit 6ac04bdc5edb418787ab2040b1f922c23464c750 and fixed in 5.17.2 with commit 7d51cb010b20d70b16dc6e4341bf29d6c5b32564 |
| Issue introduced in 5.17 with commit 6ac04bdc5edb418787ab2040b1f922c23464c750 and fixed in 5.18 with commit 3d38faef0de1756994b3d95e47b2302842f729e2 |
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| Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported |
| kernel versions by the kernel community. |
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| Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to |
| older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at |
| https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-49237 |
| will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most |
| up to date information about this issue. |
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| Affected files |
| ============== |
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| The file(s) affected by this issue are: |
| drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mhi.c |
| drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/qmi.c |
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| Mitigation |
| ========== |
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| The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest |
| stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual |
| changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel |
| release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or |
| supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to |
| the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this |
| issue can be found at these commits: |
| https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d51cb010b20d70b16dc6e4341bf29d6c5b32564 |
| https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d38faef0de1756994b3d95e47b2302842f729e2 |
