CVE-2022-48924: thermal: int340x: fix memory leak in int3400_notify()

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: 2024-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: int340x: fix memory leak in int3400_notify() It is easy to hit the below memory leaks in my TigerLake platform: unreferenced object 0xffff927c8b91dbc0 (size 32): comm "kworker/0:2", pid 112, jiffies 4294893323 (age 83.604s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 4e 41 4d 45 3d 49 4e 54 33 34 30 30 20 54 68 65 NAME=INT3400 The 72 6d 61 6c 00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5 rmal.kkkkkkkkkk. backtrace: [<ffffffff9c502c3e>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x2fe/0x4a0 [<ffffffff9c7b7c15>] kvasprintf+0x65/0xd0 [<ffffffff9c7b7d6e>] kasprintf+0x4e/0x70 [<ffffffffc04cb662>] int3400_notify+0x82/0x120 [int3400_thermal] [<ffffffff9c8b7358>] acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x54/0x71 [<ffffffff9c88f1a7>] acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x17/0x30 [<ffffffff9c2c2c0a>] process_one_work+0x21a/0x3f0 [<ffffffff9c2c2e2a>] worker_thread+0x4a/0x3b0 [<ffffffff9c2cb4dd>] kthread+0xfd/0x130 [<ffffffff9c201c1f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 Fix it by calling kfree() accordingly.

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 4.14 before 4.14.274; from 4.15 before 4.19.237; from 4.20 before 5.4.188; from 5.5 before 5.10.103; from 5.11 before 5.15.26; from 5.16 before 5.16.12 — fixed in 4.14.274, 4.19.237, 5.10.103, 5.15.26, 5.16.12, 5.4.188

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.14.274, 4.19.237, 5.10.103, 5.15.26. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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