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CVE-2022-49661

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CVE-2022-49661

Published: Feb 26, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: gs_usb: gs_usb_open/close(): fix memory leak The gs_usb driver appears to suffer from a malady common to many USB CAN adapter drivers in that it performs usb_alloc_coherent() to allocate a number of USB request blocks (URBs) for RX, and then later relies on usb_kill_anchored_urbs() to free them, but this doesn't actually free them. As a result, this may be leaking DMA memory that's been used by the driver. This commit is an adaptation of the techniques found in the esd_usb2 driver where a similar design pattern led to a memory leak. It explicitly frees the RX URBs and their DMA memory via a call to usb_free_coherent(). Since the RX URBs were allocated in the gs_can_open(), we remove them in gs_can_close() rather than in the disconnect function as was done in esd_usb2. For more information, see the 928150fad41b ("can: esd_usb2: fix memory leak").

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222da - < 339fa9f80d3b94177a7a459c6d115d3b56007d5a
affected
d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222da - < c1d806bc29ff7ffe0e2a023583c8720ed96cb0b0
affected
d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222da - < d91492638b054f4a359621ef216242be5973ed6b
affected
d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222da - < 6f655b5e13fa4b27e915b6c209ac0da74fd75963
affected
d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222da - < d0b8e223998866b3e7b2895927d4e9689b0a80d8

+3 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
3.16
unaffected
0 - < 3.16
unaffected
4.9.323 - <= 4.9.*
unaffected
4.14.288 - <= 4.14.*
unaffected
4.19.252 - <= 4.19.*

+5 more versions

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