This patch addresses CVE-2016-5400, a local DOS vulnerability caused by a
memory leak in the airspy usb device driver. The vulnerability is triggered
when more than 64 usb devices register with v4l2 of type VFL_TYPE_SDR or
VFL_TYPE_SUBDEV.A badusb device can emulate 64 of these devices then
through continual emulated connect/disconnect of the 65th device, cause the
kernel to run out of RAM and crash the kernel. The vulnerability exists in
kernel versions from 3.17 to current 4.7.
The memory leak is caused by the probe function of the airspy driver
mishandeling errors and not freeing the corresponding control structures
when an error occours registering the device to v4l2 core.
Signed-off-by: James Patrick-Evans <james@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c b/drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c
index 87c1293..6c3ac8b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ static int airspy_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
if (ret) {
dev_err(s->dev, "Failed to register as video device (%d)\n",
ret);
- goto err_unregister_v4l2_dev;
+ goto err_free_controls;
}
dev_info(s->dev, "Registered as %s\n",
video_device_node_name(&s->vdev));
--
1.9.1
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