CVE-2024-42262 drm/v3d: Fix potential memory leak in the performance extension

What is CVE-2024-42262?

CVE-2024-42262 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Aug 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/v3d: Fix potential memory leak in the performance extension

If fetching of userspace memory fails during the main loop, all drm sync objs looked up until that point will be leaked because of the missing drm_syncobj_put.

Fix it by exporting and using a common cleanup helper.

(cherry picked from commit 484de39fa5f5b7bd0c5f2e2c5265167250ef7501)

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-42262?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-42262?

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-2024-42262 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42262 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-2024-42262, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42262, GHSA-h26c-rrrx-f2q4, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42262.