CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-53596

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been resolved regarding the failure to release device resources during unregistration. The issue affects bus-less or driver-less devices that may not be freed if a managed resource holds a reference to the device.

Risk Assessment

Failure to release resources can lead to memory leaks and system instability, threatening the integrity and availability of services within the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to the latest version to benefit from the fixes related to resource release during device unregistration.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device In the current code, devres_release_all() only gets called if the device has a bus and has been probed. This leads to issues when using bus-less or driver-less devices where the device might never get freed if a managed resource holds a reference to the device. This is happening in the DRM framework for example. We should thus call devres_release_all() in the device_del() function to make sure that the device-managed actions are properly executed when the device is unregistered, even if it has neither a bus nor a driver. This is effectively the same change than commit 2f8d16a996da ("devres: release resources on device_del()") that got reverted by commit a525a3ddeaca ("driver core: free devres in device_release") over memory leaks concerns. This patch effectively combines the two commits mentioned above to release the resources both on device_del() and device_release() and get the best of both worlds.

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