5.5

CVE-2022-49256

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

watch_queue: Actually free the watch

free_watch() does everything barring actually freeing the watch object.  Fix
this by adding the missing kfree.

kmemleak produces a report something like the following.  Note that as an
address can be seen in the first word, the watch would appear to have gone
through call_rcu().

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810ce4a200 (size 96):
  comm "syz-executor352", pid 3605, jiffies 4294947473 (age 13.720s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    e0 82 48 0d 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ..H.............
    80 a2 e4 0c 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff8214e6cc>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:581 [inline]
    [<ffffffff8214e6cc>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:714 [inline]
    [<ffffffff8214e6cc>] keyctl_watch_key+0xec/0x2e0 security/keys/keyctl.c:1800
    [<ffffffff8214ec84>] __do_sys_keyctl+0x3c4/0x490 security/keys/keyctl.c:2016
    [<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
    [<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
    [<ffffffff84600068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
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LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.8 < 5.10.110
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.33
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 5.16.19
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.17 < 5.17.2
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.03% 0.09
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, which slowly consumes remaining memory.