In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
Oct 23, 2025
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Oct 23, 2025
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Feb 26, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Oct 23, 2025
Last updated
Oct 23, 2025
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").
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