CVE-2022-49661

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: gs_usb: gs_usb_open/close(): fix memory leak The gs_usb driver appears to suffer from a malady common to many USB CAN adapter drivers in that it performs usb_alloc_coherent() to allocate a number of USB request blocks (URBs) for RX, and then later relies on usb_kill_anchored_urbs() to free them, but this doesn't actually free them. As a result, this may be leaking DMA memory that's been used by the driver. This commit is an adaptation of the techniques found in the esd_usb2 driver where a similar design pattern led to a memory leak. It explicitly frees the RX URBs and their DMA memory via a call to usb_free_coherent(). Since the RX URBs were allocated in the gs_can_open(), we remove them in gs_can_close() rather than in the disconnect function as was done in esd_usb2. For more information, see the 928150fad41b ("can: esd_usb2: fix memory leak").

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedFeb 26, 2025
First seenFeb 26, 2025

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel4.9.323, 4.14.288, 4.19.252, 5.4.205, 5.10.130, 5.15.54, 5.18.11 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel3.16 ≤ v < 4.9.323, 4.10 ≤ v < 4.14.288, 4.15 ≤ v < 4.19.252, 4.20 ≤ v < 5.4.205, 5.5 ≤ v < 5.10.130, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.54, 5.16 ≤ v < 5.18.11, 5.194.9.323, 4.14.288, 4.19.252, 5.4.205, 5.10.130, 5.15.54, 5.18.11

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