NetSight
medium5.5

CVE-2023-53298

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: fix memory leak of se_io context in nfc_genl_se_io The callback context for sending/re…

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: fix memory leak of se_io context in nfc_genl_se_io The callback context for sending/receiving APDUs to/from the selected secure element is allocated inside nfc_genl_se_io and supposed to be eventually freed in se_io_cb callback function. However, there are several error paths where the bwi_timer is not charged to call se_io_cb later, and the cb_context is leaked. The patch proposes to free the cb_context explicitly on those error paths. At the moment we can't simply check 'dev->ops->se_io()' return value as it may be negative in both cases: when the timer was charged and was not.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 3.13 before 4.14.308
from 4.15 before 4.19.276
from 4.20 before 5.4.235
from 5.5 before 5.10.173
from 5.11 before 5.15.100
from 5.16 before 6.1.18

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