vulnerability
Debian: CVE-2022-49210: linux -- security update
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
6 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C) | Feb 27, 2025 | Feb 27, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
MIPS: pgalloc: fix memory leak caused by pgd_free()
pgd page is freed by generic implementation pgd_free() since commit
f9cb654cb550 ("asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic pgd_free()"),
however, there are scenarios that the system uses more than one page as
the pgd table, in such cases the generic implementation pgd_free() won't
be applicable anymore. For example, when PAGE_SIZE_4KB is enabled and
MIPS_VA_BITS_48 is not enabled in a 64bit system, the macro "PGD_ORDER"
will be set as "1", which will cause allocating two pages as the pgd
table. Well, at the same time, the generic implementation pgd_free()
just free one pgd page, which will result in the memory leak.
The memory leak can be easily detected by executing shell command:
"while true; do ls > /dev/null; grep MemFree /proc/meminfo; done"
Solution

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