CVE-2024-50231

/// Technical description

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

iio: gts-helper: Fix memory leaks in iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table()

modprobe iio-test-gts and rmmod it, then the following memory leak

occurs:

unreferenced object 0xffffff80c810be00 (size 64):

comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1654, jiffies 4294913981

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

02 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 ........ ...@...

80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 08 00 00 ................

backtrace (crc a63d875e):

[<0000000028c1b3c2>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40

[<000000001d6ecc87>] __kmalloc_noprof+0x2bc/0x3c0

[<00000000393795c1>] devm_iio_init_iio_gts+0x4b4/0x16f4

[<0000000071bb4b09>] 0xffffffdf052a62e0

[<000000000315bc18>] 0xffffffdf052a6488

[<00000000f9dc55b5>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac

[<00000000175a3fd4>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec

[<00000000f505065d>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374

[<00000000bbfb0e5d>] ret_from_fork+0x10

/// Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

/// References