From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: cve@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CVE-2023-52560: mm/damon/vaddr-test: fix memory leak in damon_do_test_apply_three_regions()
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 22:25:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024030527-sinless-platter-510a@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZedNf9uP3_TjIy0g@tiehlicka>
On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 05:51:11PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sat 02-03-24 22:59:54, Greg KH wrote:
> > Description
> > ===========
> >
> > In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
> >
> > mm/damon/vaddr-test: fix memory leak in damon_do_test_apply_three_regions()
> >
> > When CONFIG_DAMON_VADDR_KUNIT_TEST=y and making CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y
> > and CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN=y, the below memory leak is detected.
>
> This is a kunit test case AFAICS. Is this really a CVE material?
People run kunit tests on real systems (again, we do not dictate use
cases.) So yes, fixing a memory leak that can be triggered is resolving
a weakness and so should get a CVE I would think, right?
thanks,
greg k-h
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2024-03-05 16:51 ` CVE-2023-52560: mm/damon/vaddr-test: fix memory leak in damon_do_test_apply_three_regions() Michal Hocko
2024-03-05 22:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2024-03-06 7:49 ` Michal Hocko
2024-03-06 8:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-03-06 8:56 ` Michal Hocko
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