CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49853
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- 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
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 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:
net: macvlan: fix memory leaks of macvlan_common_newlink
kmemleak reports memory leaks in macvlan_common_newlink, as follows:
ip link add link eth0 name .. type macvlan mode source macaddr add
<MAC-ADDR>
kmemleak reports:
unreferenced object 0xffff8880109bb140 (size 64):
comm "ip", pid 284, jiffies 4294986150 (age 430.108s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b8 aa 5a 12 80 88 ff ff ..........Z.....
80 1b fa 0d 80 88 ff ff 1e ff ac af c7 c1 6b 6b ..............kk
backtrace:
[<ffffffff813e06a7>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1c7/0x300
[<ffffffff81b66025>] macvlan_hash_add_source+0x45/0xc0
[<ffffffff81b66a67>] macvlan_changelink_sources+0xd7/0x170
[<ffffffff81b6775c>] macvlan_common_newlink+0x38c/0x5a0
[<ffffffff81b6797e>] macvlan_newlink+0xe/0x20
[<ffffffff81d97f8f>] __rtnl_newlink+0x7af/0xa50
[<ffffffff81d98278>] rtnl_newlink+0x48/0x70
...
In the scenario where the macvlan mode is configured as 'source',
macvlan_changelink_sources() will be execured to reconfigure list of
remote source mac addresses, at the same time, if register_netdevice()
return an error, the resource generated by macvlan_changelink_sources()
is not cleaned up.
Using this patch, in the case of an error, it will execute
macvlan_flush_sources() to ensure that the resource is cleaned up.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9 < 4.9.334)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.300)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.267)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.225)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.155)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.79)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.9)
• linux linux kernel 6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21d3a8b6a1e39e7529ce9de07316ee13a63f305b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23569b5652ee8e8e55a12f7835f59af6f3cefc30 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/685e73e3f7a9fb75cbf049a9d0b7c45cc6b57b2e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/956e0216a19994443c90ba2ea6b0b284c9c4f9cb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ea003c4671b2fc455320ecf6d4a43b0a3c1878a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f288e338be206713d79b29144c27fca4503c39b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a81b44d1df1f07f00c0dcc0a0b3d2fa24a46289e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8d67367ab33604326cc37ab44fd1801bf5691ba Patch