CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49345
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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init()
EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text
section is freed up after the initialization. Hence, modules cannot
use symbols annotated __init. The access to a freed symbol may end up
with kernel panic.
modpost used to detect it, but it has been broken for a decade.
Recently, I fixed modpost so it started to warn it again, then this
showed up in linux-next builds.
There are two ways to fix it:
- Remove __init
- Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL
I chose the latter for this case because the only in-tree call-site,
net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c is never compiled as modular.
(CONFIG_XFRM is boolean)
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.15 < 4.9.318)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.283)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.247)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.198)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.122)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.47)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.17.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 5.18.4)
• linux linux kernel 5.19
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b253fbc9f7b5db18d716436bdcf8ecef09fd63d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31f3c6a4dcd3260a386e62cef2d5b36e902600a1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a388f08d8784af48f352193d2b72aaf167a57a1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85a055c03691e51499123194a14a0c249cf33227 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be3884d5cd04ccd58294b83a02d70b7c5fca19d3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c58d82a1264813e69119c13e9804e2e60b664ad5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e04d59cfe0c0129df7aba7ef7bb17b96be2a64f2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e53cd3814504b2cadaba4d5a8a07eeea9ddacd03 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef6d2354de238b065d8799c80da4be9a6af18e39 Patch