ax25: Fix reference count leak issue of net_device
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ax25: Fix reference count leak issue of net_device There is a reference count leak issue of the object "net_device" in ax25_dev_device_down(). When the ax25 device is shutting down, the ax25_dev_device_down() drops the reference count of net_device one or zero times depending on if we goto unlock_put or not, which will cause memory leak. In order to solve the above issue, decrease the reference count of net_device after dev->ax25_ptr is set to null.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
1550 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ax25: Fix reference count leak issue of net_device There is a reference count leak issue of the object "net_device" in ax25_dev_device_down(). When the ax25 device is shutting down, the ax25_dev_device_down() drops the reference count of net_device one or zero times depending on if we goto unlock_put or not, which will cause memory leak. In order to solve the above issue, decrease the reference count of net_device after dev->ax25_ptr is set to null.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36e56b1b002bb26440403053f19f9e1a8bc075b2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ec437f9bbae68e9b38115c4c91de995f73f6bad
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bad3a20a27be8d935f2aae08d3c6e743754944a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/965d940fb7414b310a22666503d2af69459c981b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eef95df9b752699bddecefa851f64858247246e9
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38554.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38554