| 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-2024-50172: RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix a possible memory leak |
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| Description |
| =========== |
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| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: |
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| RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix a possible memory leak |
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| In bnxt_re_setup_chip_ctx() when bnxt_qplib_map_db_bar() fails |
| driver is not freeing the memory allocated for "rdev->chip_ctx". |
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| The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-50172 to this issue. |
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| Affected and fixed versions |
| =========================== |
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| Issue introduced in 6.5 with commit 0ac20faf5d837b59fb4c041ea320932ed47fd67f and fixed in 6.6.59 with commit 73e04a6114e08b5eb10e589e12b680955accb376 |
| Issue introduced in 6.5 with commit 0ac20faf5d837b59fb4c041ea320932ed47fd67f and fixed in 6.11.6 with commit 595fa9b17201028d35f92d450fc0ecda873fe469 |
| Issue introduced in 6.5 with commit 0ac20faf5d837b59fb4c041ea320932ed47fd67f and fixed in 6.12 with commit 3fc5410f225d1651580a4aeb7c72f55e28673b53 |
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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-2024-50172 |
| 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/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.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/73e04a6114e08b5eb10e589e12b680955accb376 |
| https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/595fa9b17201028d35f92d450fc0ecda873fe469 |
| https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fc5410f225d1651580a4aeb7c72f55e28673b53 |
