vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49085): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Feb 26, 2025 | Mar 3, 2025 | Jun 12, 2025 |
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/
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2022-49085
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-49085
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/aadb22ba2f656581b2f733deb3a467c48cc618f6
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0489700bfeb1e53eb2039c2291c67e71b0b40103
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/188fe6b26765edbad4055611c0f788b6870f4024
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/226e993c39405292781bfcf4b039a8db56aab362
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/594205b4936771a250f9d141e7e0fff21c3dd2d9
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a972c768723359ec995579902473028fe3cd64b1
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aadb22ba2f656581b2f733deb3a467c48cc618f6
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6a4055036eed1f5e239ce3d8b0db1ce38bba447
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcf6be17b5c53b741898d2223b23e66d682de300
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de63e74da2333b4068bb79983e632db730fea97e
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49085

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