CVE-2023-52989

Technical Description

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

firewire: fix memory leak for payload of request subaction to IEC 61883-1 FCP region

This patch is fix for Linux kernel v2.6.33 or later.

For request subaction to IEC 61883-1 FCP region, Linux FireWire subsystem

have had an issue of use-after-free. The subsystem allows multiple

user space listeners to the region, while data of the payload was likely

released before the listeners execute read(2) to access to it for copying

to user space.

The issue was fixed by a commit 281e20323ab7 ("firewire: core: fix

use-after-free regression in FCP handler"). The object of payload is

duplicated in kernel space for each listener. When the listener executes

ioctl(2) with FW_CDEV_IOC_SEND_RESPONSE request, the object is going to

be released.

However, it causes memory leak since the commit relies on call of

release_request() in drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c. Against the

expectation, the function is never called due to the design of

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. 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.

Affected Products

References