vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49890): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 1, 2025 | May 6, 2025 | Jun 12, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
capabilities: fix potential memleak on error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc()
In cap_inode_getsecurity(), we will use vfs_getxattr_alloc() to
complete the memory allocation of tmpbuf, if we have completed
the memory allocation of tmpbuf, but failed to call handler->get(...),
there will be a memleak in below logic:
|-- ret = (int)vfs_getxattr_alloc(mnt_userns, ...)
| /* ^^^ alloc for tmpbuf */
|-- value = krealloc(*xattr_value, error + 1, flags)
| /* ^^^ alloc memory */
|-- error = handler->get(handler, ...)
| /* error! */
|-- *xattr_value = value
| /* xattr_value is &tmpbuf (memory leak!) */
So we will try to free(tmpbuf) after vfs_getxattr_alloc() fails to fix it.
[PM: subject line and backtrace tweaks]
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2022-49890
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-49890
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/8cf0a1bc12870d148ae830a4ba88cfdf0e879cee
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c3e6288da650d1ec911a259c77bc2d88e498603
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2de8eec8afb75792440b8900a01d52b8f6742fd1
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bb00eb21c0fbf18e5d3538c9ff0cf63fd0ace85
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7480aeff0093d8c54377553ec6b31110bea37b4d
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cf0a1bc12870d148ae830a4ba88cfdf0e879cee
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90577bcc01c4188416a47269f8433f70502abe98
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdf01c807e974048c43c7fd3ca574f6086a57906
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49890

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