vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-48933): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 2024-08-22 | 2024-11-19 | 2025-02-11 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: fix memory leak during stateful obj update
stateful objects can be updated from the control plane.
The transaction logic allocates a temporary object for this purpose.
The ->init function was called for this object, so plain kfree() leaks
resources. We must call ->destroy function of the object.
nft_obj_destroy does this, but it also decrements the module refcount,
but the update path doesn't increment it.
To avoid special-casing the update object release, do module_get for
the update case too and release it via nft_obj_destroy().
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2022-48933
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-48933
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/dad3bdeef45f81a6e90204bcc85360bb76eccec7
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34bb90e407e3288f610558beaae54ecaa32b11c4
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53026346a94c43f35c32b18804041bc483271d87
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e9880e81d3fd6a43c202f205717485290432826
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dad3bdeef45f81a6e90204bcc85360bb76eccec7
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e96e204ee6fa46702f6c94c3c69a09e69e0eac52
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48933

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