vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2022-49871: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 1, 2025
Added
May 5, 2025
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

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

net: tun: Fix memory leaks of napi_get_frags

kmemleak reports after running test_progs:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881b1672dc0 (size 232):
comm "test_progs", pid 394388, jiffies 4354712116 (age 841.975s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
e0 84 d7 a8 81 88 ff ff 80 2c 67 b1 81 88 ff ff .........,g.....
00 40 c5 9b 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@..............
backtrace:
[<00000000c8f01748>] napi_skb_cache_get+0xd4/0x150
[<0000000041c7fc09>] __napi_build_skb+0x15/0x50
[<00000000431c7079>] __napi_alloc_skb+0x26e/0x540
[<000000003ecfa30e>] napi_get_frags+0x59/0x140
[<0000000099b2199e>] tun_get_user+0x183d/0x3bb0 [tun]
[<000000008a5adef0>] tun_chr_write_iter+0xc0/0x1b1 [tun]
[<0000000049993ff4>] do_iter_readv_writev+0x19f/0x320
[<000000008f338ea2>] do_iter_write+0x135/0x630
[<000000008a3377a4>] vfs_writev+0x12e/0x440
[<00000000a6b5639a>] do_writev+0x104/0x280
[<00000000ccf065d8>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[<00000000d776e329>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The issue occurs in the following scenarios:
tun_get_user()
napi_gro_frags()
napi_frags_finish()
case GRO_NORMAL:
gro_normal_one()
list_add_tail(&skb->list, &napi->rx_list);
<-- While napi->rx_count < READ_ONCE(gro_normal_batch),
<-- gro_normal_list() is not called, napi->rx_list is not empty
<-- not ask to complete the gro work, will cause memory leaks in
<-- following tun_napi_del()
...
tun_napi_del()
netif_napi_del()
__netif_napi_del()
<-- &napi->rx_list is not empty, which caused memory leaks

To fix, add napi_complete() after napi_gro_frags().

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
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