CVE-2021-47344: media: zr364xx: fix memory leak in zr364xx_start_readpipe

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: zr364xx: fix memory leak in zr364xx_start_readpipe syzbot reported memory leak in zr364xx driver. The problem was in non-freed urb in case of usb_submit_urb() fail. backtrace: [<ffffffff82baedf6>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:561 [inline] [<ffffffff82baedf6>] usb_alloc_urb+0x66/0xe0 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:74 [<ffffffff82f7cce8>] zr364xx_start_readpipe+0x78/0x130 drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/zr364xx.c:1022 [<ffffffff84251dfc>] zr364xx_board_init drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/zr364xx.c:1383 [inline] [<ffffffff84251dfc>] zr364xx_probe+0x6a3/0x851 drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/zr364xx.c:1516 [<ffffffff82bb6507>] usb_probe_interface+0x177/0x370 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396 [<ffffffff826018a9>] really_probe+0x159/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:576

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 2.6.32 before 4.4.276; from 4.5 before 4.9.276; from 4.10 before 4.14.240; from 4.15 before 4.19.198; from 4.20 before 5.4.133; from 5.5 before 5.10.51 — fixed in 4.14.240, 4.19.198, 4.4.276, 4.9.276, 5.10.51, 5.12.18

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.14.240, 4.19.198, 4.4.276, 4.9.276. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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