binder: fix leaked fd fixups on TF_UPDATE_TXN supersede
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
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affected
9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b → before ab3f0ea529d4e36dde52c8efc76082c501abf9b6
git versions
9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b → before a7329ea53d04f0c6135d02905810cd6f42acdf45
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9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b → before 7fd609fb0e9dcbc4d7a1e4da1af5368c0555ff55
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9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b → before 1299cb3fb061598496086fc87ff291057831148e
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9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b → before 6673f4f21e2fddfed0abe1eb9045cc958e6db130
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9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b → before c4c02084d6687d5cd5edccaf52cc45e5160f1184
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6.0
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0 → before 6.0
semver versions
6.1.191 → through 6.1.*
semver versions
6.6.160 → through 6.6.*
semver versions
6.12.113 → through 6.12.*
semver versions
6.18.56 → through 6.18.*
semver versions
7.2.10 → through 7.2.*
semver versions
7.3 → through *
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
binder: fix leaked fd fixups on TF_UPDATE_TXN supersede
When a TF_UPDATE_TXN transaction supersedes a pending async transaction in a frozen process, the outdated transaction is freed with kfree() directly. This skips binder_free_txn_fixups(), leaking all binder_txn_fd_fixup entries and their fget()'d struct file references.
The leaked file refcounts never reach zero, so the struct file objects are permanently pinned in memory. They survive process exit and accumulate across invocations until file-max exhaustion.
Every other transaction cleanup path (binder_free_transaction(), binder_transaction() error paths, binder_release_work()) correctly calls binder_free_txn_fixups(). Add the missing call before kfree() in the t_outdated cleanup block.
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Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 6.0
Before: 6.1.191
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 6.0
Before: 6.6.160
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 6.0
Before: 6.12.113
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 6.0
Before: 6.18.56
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 6.0
Before: 7.2.10
Vulnerable product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*From (inclusive): 6.0
Before: 7.3
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