vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49914): 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 10, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at resolve_indirect_refs()
During backref walking, at resolve_indirect_refs(), if we get an error
we jump to the 'out' label and call ulist_free() on the 'parents' ulist,
which frees all the elements in the ulist - however that does not free
any inode lists that may be attached to elements, through the 'aux' field
of a ulist node, so we end up leaking lists if we have any attached to
the unodes.
Fix this by calling free_leaf_list() instead of ulist_free() when we exit
from resolve_indirect_refs(). The static function free_leaf_list() is
moved up for this to be possible and it's slightly simplified by removing
unnecessary code.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2022-49914
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-49914
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/5614dc3a47e3310fbc77ea3b67eaadd1c6417bf1
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c0329406bb28109c07c6e23e5e3e0fa618a95d7
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/396515db923ad5cbeb179d6b88927870b4cbebb7
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5614dc3a47e3310fbc77ea3b67eaadd1c6417bf1
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ba3479f9e96b9ad460c7e77abc26dd16e5dec4f
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a52e24c7fcc3c5ce3588a14e3663c00868d36623
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1dc9019bb5f89abae85645de1a2dd4830c1f8e9
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cded2c89774b99b67c98147ae103ea878c92a206
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49914

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