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Tracker / CVE-2023-53298

CVE-2023-53298

Medium 5.5

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 and versions

linux linux_kernel · 3.13 → 4.14.308
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.276
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.235
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.100
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.18
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.173
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.2.5

Analysis

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