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+0x10/0x20
unreferenced object 0xffffff80cbfe9e70 (size 16):
comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1658, jiffies 4294914015
hex dump (first 16 bytes):
10 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....@...........
backtrace (crc 857f0cb4):
[<0000000028c1b3c2>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
[<000000001d6ecc87>] __kmalloc_noprof+0x2bc/0x3c0
[<00000000393795c1>] devm_iio_init_iio_gts+0x4b4/0x16f4
[<0000000071bb4b09>] 0xffffffdf052a62e0
[<000000007d089d45>] 0xffffffdf052a68...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-50231

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: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 4.32% (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-2024-50231
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38d6e8be234d87b0eedca50309e25051888b39d1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16e41593825c3044efca0eb34b2d6ffba306e4ec
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/691e79ffc42154a9c91dc3b7e96a307037b4be74

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