CVE-2024-26833 drm/amd/display: Fix memory leak in dm_sw_fini()

What is CVE-2024-26833?

CVE-2024-26833 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 17 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amd/display: Fix memory leak in dm_sw_fini()

After destroying dmub_srv, the memory associated with it is not freed, causing a memory leak:

unreferenced object 0xffff896302b45800 (size 1024): comm "(udev-worker)", pid 222, jiffies 4294894636 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc 6265fd77): [<ffffffff993495ed>] kmalloc_trace+0x29d/0x340 [<ffffffffc0ea4a94>] dm_dmub_sw_init+0xb4/0x450 [amdgpu] [<ffffffffc0ea4e55>] dm_sw_init+0x15/0x2b0 [amdgpu] [<ffffffffc0ba8557>] amdgpu_device_init+0x1417/0x24e0 [amdgpu] [<ffffffffc0bab285>] amdgpu_driver_load_kms+0x15/0x190 [amdgpu] [<ffffffffc0ba09c7>] amdgpu_pci_probe+0x187/0x4e0 [amdgpu] [<ffffffff9968fd1e>] local_pci_probe+0x3e/0x90 [<ffffffff996918a3>] pci_device_probe+0xc3/0x230 [<ffffffff99805872>] really_probe+0xe2/0x480 [<ffffffff99805c98>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160 [<ffffffff99805daf>] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90 [<ffffffff9980601e>] __driver_attach+0xce/0x1c0 [<ffffffff99803170>] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0 [<ffffffff99804822>] bus_add_driver+0x112/0x210 [<ffffffff99807245>] driver_register+0x55/0x100 [<ffffffff990012d1>] do_one_initcall+0x41/0x300

Fix this by freeing dmub_srv after destroying it.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26833?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-26833?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-26833 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26833 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-26833, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26833, GHSA-jv96-qfmj-26f9, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26833.