CVE-2024-46716

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/09/2024
Last modified:
20/09/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> dmaengine: altera-msgdma: properly free descriptor in msgdma_free_descriptor<br /> <br /> Remove list_del call in msgdma_chan_desc_cleanup, this should be the role<br /> of msgdma_free_descriptor. In consequence replace list_add_tail with<br /> list_move_tail in msgdma_free_descriptor.<br /> <br /> This fixes the path:<br /> msgdma_free_chan_resources -&gt; msgdma_free_descriptors -&gt;<br /> msgdma_free_desc_list -&gt; msgdma_free_descriptor<br /> <br /> which does not correctly free the descriptors as first nodes were not<br /> removed from the list.

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