CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49878
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:
bpf, verifier: Fix memory leak in array reallocation for stack state
If an error (NULL) is returned by krealloc(), callers of realloc_array()
were setting their allocation pointers to NULL, but on error krealloc()
does not touch the original allocation. This would result in a memory
resource leak. Instead, free the old allocation on the error handling
path.
The memory leak information is as follows as also reported by Zhengchao:
unreferenced object 0xffff888019801800 (size 256):
comm "bpf_repo", pid 6490, jiffies 4294959200 (age 17.170s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<00000000b211474b>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x45/0xc0
[<0000000086712a0b>] krealloc+0x83/0xd0
[<00000000139aab02>] realloc_array+0x82/0xe2
[<00000000b1ca41d1>] grow_stack_state+0xfb/0x186
[<00000000cd6f36d2>] check_mem_access.cold+0x141/0x1341
[<0000000081780455>] do_check_common+0x5358/0xb350
[<0000000015f6b091>] bpf_check.cold+0xc3/0x29d
[<000000002973c690>] bpf_prog_load+0x13db/0x2240
[<00000000028d1644>] __sys_bpf+0x1605/0x4ce0
[<00000000053f29bd>] __x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xb0
[<0000000056fedaf5>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<000000002bd58261>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.14 < 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