vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49256): linux vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Added
Mar 19, 2025
Modified
Mar 21, 2025

Description

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

watch_queue: Actually free the watch

free_watch() does everything barring actually freeing the watch object. Fix
this by adding the missing kfree.

kmemleak produces a report something like the following. Note that as an
address can be seen in the first word, the watch would appear to have gone
through call_rcu().

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810ce4a200 (size 96):
comm "syz-executor352", pid 3605, jiffies 4294947473 (age 13.720s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
e0 82 48 0d 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..H.............
80 a2 e4 0c 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:581 [inline]
[] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:714 [inline]
[] keyctl_watch_key+0xec/0x2e0 security/keys/keyctl.c:1800
[] __do_sys_keyctl+0x3c4/0x490 security/keys/keyctl.c:2016
[] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
[] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Solution(s)

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