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CVE-2022-49661

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2022
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

can: gs_usb: gs_usb_open/close(): fix memory leak

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").

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222daaffectedgit339fa9f80d3b94177a7a459c6d115d3b56007d5aUnavailableNone listed
d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222daaffectedgitc1d806bc29ff7ffe0e2a023583c8720ed96cb0b0UnavailableNone listed
d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222daaffectedgitd91492638b054f4a359621ef216242be5973ed6bUnavailableNone listed
d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222daaffectedgit6f655b5e13fa4b27e915b6c209ac0da74fd75963UnavailableNone listed
d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222daaffectedgitd0b8e223998866b3e7b2895927d4e9689b0a80d8UnavailableNone listed
d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222daaffectedgit0e60230bc64355c80abe993d1719fdb318094e20UnavailableNone listed
d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222daaffectedgitffb6cc6601ec7c8fa963dcf76025df4a02f2cf5cUnavailableNone listed
d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222daaffectedgit2bda24ef95c0311ab93bda00db40486acf30bd0aUnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
3.16affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver3.16UnavailableNone listed
4.9.323unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.9.*None listed
4.14.288unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.14.*None listed
4.19.252unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.19.*None listed
5.4.205unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.4.*None listed
5.10.130unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.54unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
5.18.11unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.18.*None listed
5.19unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed