vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-48809: Security patch for kernel (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jul 16, 2024 | Aug 19, 2024 | May 20, 2026 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: fix a memleak when uncloning an skb dst and its metadata
When uncloning an skb dst and its associated metadata, a new
dst+metadata is allocated and later replaces the old one in the skb.
This is helpful to have a non-shared dst+metadata attached to a specific
skb.
The issue is the uncloned dst+metadata is initialized with a refcount of
1, which is increased to 2 before attaching it to the skb. When
tun_dst_unclone returns, the dst+metadata is only referenced from a
single place (the skb) while its refcount is 2. Its refcount will never
drop to 0 (when the skb is consumed), leading to a memory leak.
Fix this by removing the call to dst_hold in tun_dst_unclone, as the
dst+metadata refcount is already 1.
Solutions
References
- AMAZON-AL2/ALAS-2022-1761
- AMAZON-AL2/ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-011
- AMAZON-AL2/ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-023
- AMAZON-AL2/ALASKERNEL-5.10-2022-011
- AMAZON-AL2/ALASKERNEL-5.4-2022-023
- CVE-2022-48809
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-48809
- CWE-401
- EUVD-EUVD-2022-53688
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-53688
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