5.5

CVE-2022-49801

tracing: Fix memory leak in tracing_read_pipe()

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

tracing: Fix memory leak in tracing_read_pipe()

kmemleak reports this issue:

unreferenced object 0xffff888105a18900 (size 128):
  comm "test_progs", pid 18933, jiffies 4336275356 (age 22801.766s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    25 73 00 90 81 88 ff ff 26 05 00 00 42 01 58 04  %s......&...B.X.
    03 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<00000000560143a1>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4a/0x140
    [<000000006af00822>] krealloc+0x8d/0xf0
    [<00000000c309be6a>] trace_iter_expand_format+0x99/0x150
    [<000000005a53bdb6>] trace_check_vprintf+0x1e0/0x11d0
    [<0000000065629d9d>] trace_event_printf+0xb6/0xf0
    [<000000009a690dc7>] trace_raw_output_bpf_trace_printk+0x89/0xc0
    [<00000000d22db172>] print_trace_line+0x73c/0x1480
    [<00000000cdba76ba>] tracing_read_pipe+0x45c/0x9f0
    [<0000000015b58459>] vfs_read+0x17b/0x7c0
    [<000000004aeee8ed>] ksys_read+0xed/0x1c0
    [<0000000063d3d898>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
    [<00000000a06dda7f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

iter->fmt alloced in
  tracing_read_pipe() -> .. ->trace_iter_expand_format(), but not
freed, to fix, add free in tracing_release_pipe()
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.10.190 < 5.11
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.12 < 5.15.80
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.0.10
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc2
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc3
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc4
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc5
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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.