CVE-2023-52847

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: bttv: fix use after free error due to btv->timeout timer

There may be some a race condition between timer function bttv_irq_timeout and bttv_remove. The timer is setup in probe and there is no timer_delete operation in remove function. When it hit kfree btv, the function might still be invoked, which will cause use after free bug.

This bug is found by static analysis, it may be false positive.

Fix it by adding del_timer_sync invoking to the remove function.

cpu0 cpu1 bttv_probe ->timer_setup ->bttv_set_dma ->mod_timer; bttv_remove ->kfree(btv); ->bttv_irq_timeout ->USE btv

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux162e6376ac58440beb6a2d2ee294f5d88ea58dd1 < bbc3b8dd2cb7817e703f112d988e4f4728f0f2a9affected
LinuxLinux162e6376ac58440beb6a2d2ee294f5d88ea58dd1 < b35fdade92c5058a5e727e233fe263b828de2c9aaffected
LinuxLinux162e6376ac58440beb6a2d2ee294f5d88ea58dd1 < 2f3d9198cdae1cb079ec8652f4defacd481eab2baffected
LinuxLinux162e6376ac58440beb6a2d2ee294f5d88ea58dd1 < 51c94256a83fe4e17406c66ff3e1ad7d242d8574affected
LinuxLinux162e6376ac58440beb6a2d2ee294f5d88ea58dd1 < 20568d06f6069cb835e05eed432edf962645d226affected
LinuxLinux162e6376ac58440beb6a2d2ee294f5d88ea58dd1 < 1871014d6ef4812ad11ef7d838d73ce09d632267affected
LinuxLinux162e6376ac58440beb6a2d2ee294f5d88ea58dd1 < 847599fffa528b2cdec4e21b6bf7586dad982132affected
LinuxLinux162e6376ac58440beb6a2d2ee294f5d88ea58dd1 < bd5b50b329e850d467e7bcc07b2b6bde3752fbdaaffected
LinuxLinux4.15affected
LinuxLinux0 < 4.15unaffected
LinuxLinux4.19.299 <= 4.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.261 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.201 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.139 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.63 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.5.12 <= 6.5.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.2 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.7 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

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