vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-49085: Security patch for kernel (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Feb 26, 2025 | Apr 10, 2025 | May 20, 2026 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drbd: Fix five use after free bugs in get_initial_state
In get_initial_state, it calls notify_initial_state_done(skb,..) if
cb->args[5]==1. If genlmsg_put() failed in notify_initial_state_done(),
the skb will be freed by nlmsg_free(skb).
Then get_initial_state will goto out and the freed skb will be used by
return value skb->len, which is a uaf bug.
What's worse, the same problem goes even further: skb can also be
freed in the notify_*_state_change -> notify_*_state calls below.
Thus 4 additional uaf bugs happened.
My patch lets the problem callee functions: notify_initial_state_done
and notify_*_state_change return an error code if errors happen.
So that the error codes could be propagated and the uaf bugs can be avoid.
v2 reports a compilation warning. This v3 fixed this warning and built
successfully in my local environment with no additional warnings.
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1435218/
Solutions
References
- AMAZON-AL2/ALAS-2024-2569
- AMAZON-AL2/ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-036
- AMAZON-AL2/ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2024-076
- AMAZON-AL2/ALASKERNEL-5.10-2023-036
- AMAZON-AL2/ALASKERNEL-5.4-2024-076
- CVE-2022-49085
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-49085
- CWE-416
- EUVD-EUVD-2022-55119
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-55119
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