5.5

CVE-2022-49086

net: openvswitch: fix leak of nested actions

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: openvswitch: fix leak of nested actions

While parsing user-provided actions, openvswitch module may dynamically
allocate memory and store pointers in the internal copy of the actions.
So this memory has to be freed while destroying the actions.

Currently there are only two such actions: ct() and set().  However,
there are many actions that can hold nested lists of actions and
ovs_nla_free_flow_actions() just jumps over them leaking the memory.

For example, removal of the flow with the following actions will lead
to a leak of the memory allocated by nf_ct_tmpl_alloc():

  actions:clone(ct(commit),0)

Non-freed set() action may also leak the 'dst' structure for the
tunnel info including device references.

Under certain conditions with a high rate of flow rotation that may
cause significant memory leak problem (2MB per second in reporter's
case).  The problem is also hard to mitigate, because the user doesn't
have direct control over the datapath flows generated by OVS.

Fix that by iterating over all the nested actions and freeing
everything that needs to be freed recursively.

New build time assertion should protect us from this problem if new
actions will be added in the future.

Unfortunately, openvswitch module doesn't use NLA_F_NESTED, so all
attributes has to be explicitly checked.  sample() and clone() actions
are mixing extra attributes into the user-provided action list.  That
prevents some code generalization too.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.3 < 4.19.249
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.20 < 5.4.200
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.111
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.34
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 5.16.20
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.17 < 5.17.3
LinuxLinux Kernel Version5.18 Updaterc1
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.26% 0.171
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f30fb9166d4f15a1aa19449b9da871fe0ed4796
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3554c214b83ec9a839ed574263a34218f372990c
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53bce9d19b0a9d245b25cd050b81652ed974a509
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ae05b5eb58773cfec307ff88aff4cfd843c4cff
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7438dc55c0709819b813f4778aec2c48b782990b
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/837b96d8103938e35e7d92cd9db96af914ca4fff
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef6f9ce0a79aa23b10fc5f3b3cab3814a25aac40
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