Description

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

drm/connector: hdmi: Fix memory leak in drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic()

modprobe drm_connector_test and then rmmod drm_connector_test,
the following memory leak occurs.

The `mode` allocated in drm_mode_duplicate() called by
drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic() is not freed, which cause the memory leak:

unreferenced object 0xffffff80cb0ee400 (size 128):
comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1948, jiffies 4294950339
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
14 44 02 00 80 07 d8 07 04 08 98 08 00 00 38 04 .D............8.
3c 04 41 04 65 04 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 <.A.e...........
backtrace (crc 90e9585c):
[<00000000ec42e3d7>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
[<00000000d0ef055a>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x26c/0x2f4
[<00000000c2062161>] drm_mode_duplicate+0x44/0x19c
[<00000000f96c74aa>] drm_display_mode_from_cea_vic+0x88/0x98
[<00000000d8f2c8b4>] 0xffffffdc982a4868
[<000000005d164dbc>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac
[<000000006fb23398>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec
[<000000006ea56ca0>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
[<000000000676063f>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
......

Free `mode` by using drm_kunit_display_mode_from_cea_vic()
to fix it.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-50214

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.58% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50214
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df2b00685cd33cd85be8910c7d6d22c4ebbf18bb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/926163342a2e7595d950e84c17c693b1272bd491

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