CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49256
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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:
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:
[<ffffffff8214e6cc>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:581 [inline]
[<ffffffff8214e6cc>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:714 [inline]
[<ffffffff8214e6cc>] keyctl_watch_key+0xec/0x2e0 security/keys/keyctl.c:1800
[<ffffffff8214ec84>] __do_sys_keyctl+0x3c4/0x490 security/keys/keyctl.c:2016
[<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
[<ffffffff84600068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.8 < 5.10.110)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.16.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.17 < 5.17.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31824613a42aacdcbeb325bf07a1c8247a11ebe2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d8dcf278b1ee1eff1e90be848fa2237db4c07a7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e8c9b0df07a77f0d072603b8ced2677e30e1893 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d92be1a09fbb3dd65600dbfe7eedb40e7228e4b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f69aecb49968e14196366bbe896eab0a904229f5 Patch