CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50466
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/binfmt_elf: Fix memory leak in load_elf_binary()
There is a memory leak reported by kmemleak:
unreferenced object 0xffff88817104ef80 (size 224):
comm "xfs_admin", pid 47165, jiffies 4298708825 (age 1333.476s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
60 a8 b3 00 81 88 ff ff a8 10 5a 00 81 88 ff ff `.........Z.....
backtrace:
[<ffffffff819171e1>] __alloc_file+0x21/0x250
[<ffffffff81918061>] alloc_empty_file+0x41/0xf0
[<ffffffff81948cda>] path_openat+0xea/0x3d30
[<ffffffff8194ec89>] do_filp_open+0x1b9/0x290
[<ffffffff8192660e>] do_open_execat+0xce/0x5b0
[<ffffffff81926b17>] open_exec+0x27/0x50
[<ffffffff81a69250>] load_elf_binary+0x510/0x3ed0
[<ffffffff81927759>] bprm_execve+0x599/0x1240
[<ffffffff8192a997>] do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x4c7/0x680
[<ffffffff8192b078>] __x64_sys_execve+0x88/0xb0
[<ffffffff83bbf0a5>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
If "interp_elf_ex" fails to allocate memory in load_elf_binary(),
the program will take the "out_free_ph" error handing path,
resulting in "interpreter" file resource is not released.
Fix it by adding an error handing path "out_free_file", which will
release the file resource when "interp_elf_ex" failed to allocate
memory.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.7 < 5.10.153)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.77)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.7)
• 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/265b6fb780f57d10449a40e94219b28fa52479cc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/594d2a14f2168c09b13b114c3d457aa939403e52 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/706215300411d48db6b51a5832b872632a84bbc1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acd9b4914f1c5928c7ae8ebc623d6291eb1a573a Patch