5.5

CVE-2022-49803

netdevsim: Fix memory leak of nsim_dev->fa_cookie

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

netdevsim: Fix memory leak of nsim_dev->fa_cookie

kmemleak reports this issue:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881bac872d0 (size 8):
  comm "sh", pid 58603, jiffies 4481524462 (age 68.065s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    04 00 00 00 de ad be ef                          ........
  backtrace:
    [<00000000c80b8577>] __kmalloc+0x49/0x150
    [<000000005292b8c6>] nsim_dev_trap_fa_cookie_write+0xc1/0x210 [netdevsim]
    [<0000000093d78e77>] full_proxy_write+0xf3/0x180
    [<000000005a662c16>] vfs_write+0x1c5/0xaf0
    [<000000007aabf84a>] ksys_write+0xed/0x1c0
    [<000000005f1d2e47>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
    [<000000006001c6ec>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The issue occurs in the following scenarios:

nsim_dev_trap_fa_cookie_write()
  kmalloc() fa_cookie
  nsim_dev->fa_cookie = fa_cookie
..
nsim_drv_remove()

The fa_cookie allocked in nsim_dev_trap_fa_cookie_write() is not freed. To
fix, add kfree(nsim_dev->fa_cookie) to nsim_drv_remove().
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.7 < 6.0.10
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc2
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc3
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc4
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc5
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.17% 0.061
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/207edad5717e0a5709ce8467f0eff41c607835c9
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/064bc7312bd09a48798418663090be0c776183db
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d463ddd0107d4188229d996dcdd45c99bad8af7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d79725a7073d86b9185f87718e22f3d65115801