CVE-2024-49981 – “Venus Media Use After Free Vulnerability”

CVE ID : CVE-2024-49981

Published : Oct. 21, 2024, 6:15 p.m. | 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

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

media: venus: fix use after free bug in venus_remove due to race condition

in venus_probe, core->work is bound with venus_sys_error_handler, which is
used to handle error. The code use core->sys_err_done to make sync work.
The core->work is started in venus_event_notify.

If we call venus_remove, there might be an unfished work. The possible
sequence is as follows:

CPU0 CPU1

|venus_sys_error_handler
venus_remove |
hfi_destroy |
venus_hfi_destroy |
kfree(hdev); |
|hfi_reinit
|venus_hfi_queues_reinit
|//use hdev

Fix it by canceling the work in venus_remove.

Severity: 0.0 | NA

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CVE-2024-49981 – “Venus Media Use After Free Vulnerability”