CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-49080

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-02-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-02-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace If mpol_new is allocated but not used in restart loop, mpol_new will be freed via mpol_put before returning to the caller. But refcnt is not initialized yet, so mpol_put could not do the right things and might leak the unused mpol_new. This would happen if mempolicy was updated on the shared shmem file while the sp->lock has been dropped during the memory allocation. This issue could be triggered easily with the below code snippet if there are many processes doing the below work at the same time: shmid = shmget((key_t)5566, 1024 * PAGE_SIZE, 0666|IPC_CREAT); shm = shmat(shmid, 0, 0); loop many times { mbind(shm, 1024 * PAGE_SIZE, MPOL_LOCAL, mask, maxnode, 0); mbind(shm + 128 * PAGE_SIZE, 128 * PAGE_SIZE, MPOL_DEFAULT, mask, maxnode, 0); }

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.8.1 < 4.9.311) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.276) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.238) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.189) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.111) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.34) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.16.20) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.17 < 5.17.3) • linux linux kernel 3.8 • linux linux kernel 5.18

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References