CVE-2023-54131

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

wifi: rt2x00: Fix memory leak when handling surveys

When removing a rt2x00 device, its associated channel surveys
are not freed, causing a memory leak observable with kmemleak:

unreferenced object 0xffff9620f0881a00 (size 512):
  comm "systemd-udevd", pid 2290, jiffies 4294906974 (age 33.768s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    70 44 12 00 00 00 00 00 92 8a 00 00 00 00 00 00  pD..............
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ab 87 01 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffffb0ed858b>] __kmalloc+0x4b/0x130
    [<ffffffffc1b0f29b>] rt2800_probe_hw+0xc2b/0x1380 [rt2800lib]
    [<ffffffffc1a9496e>] rt2800usb_probe_hw+0xe/0x60 [rt2800usb]
    [<ffffffffc1ae491a>] rt2x00lib_probe_dev+0x21a/0x7d0 [rt2x00lib]
    [<ffffffffc1b3b83e>] rt2x00usb_probe+0x1be/0x980 [rt2x00usb]
    [<ffffffffc05981e2>] usb_probe_interface+0xe2/0x310 [usbcore]
    [<ffffffffb13be2d5>] really_probe+0x1a5/0x410
    [<ffffffffb13be5c8>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x180
    [<ffffffffb13be6fe>] driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
    [<ffffffffb13be972>] __driver_attach+0xd2/0x1c0
    [<ffffffffb13bbc57>] bus_for_each_dev+0x77/0xd0
    [<ffffffffb13bd2a2>] bus_add_driver+0x112/0x210
    [<ffffffffb13bfc6c>] driver_register+0x5c/0x120
    [<ffffffffc0596ae8>] usb_register_driver+0x88/0x150 [usbcore]
    [<ffffffffb0c011c4>] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x220
    [<ffffffffb0d6134c>] do_init_module+0x4c/0x220

Fix this by freeing the channel surveys on device removal.

Tested with a RT3070 based USB wireless adapter.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
UNKNOWN
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LinuxCNA
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: Unknown
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bullseye
5.10.223-1
not-affected
bullseye (security)
5.10.247-1
fixed
bookworm
6.1.148-1
fixed
bookworm (security)
6.1.158-1
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6.12.57-1
fixed
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6.12.48-1
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6.17.12-1
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6.17.13-1
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