CVE-2022-49418

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49418
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49418.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49418
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-02-26T02:12:43Z
Modified
2025-10-15T20:53:07.322406Z
Summary
NFSv4: Fix free of uninitialized nfs4_label on referral lookup.
Details

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

NFSv4: Fix free of uninitialized nfs4_label on referral lookup.

Send along the already-allocated fattr along with nfs4fslocations, and drop the memcpy of fattr. We end up growing two more allocations, but this fixes up a crash as:

PID: 790 TASK: ffff88811b43c000 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "ls" #0 [ffffc90000857920] panic at ffffffff81b9bfde #1 [ffffc900008579c0] dotrap at ffffffff81023a9b #2 [ffffc90000857a10] doerrortrap at ffffffff81023b78 #3 [ffffc90000857a58] excstacksegment at ffffffff81be1f45 #4 [ffffc90000857a80] asmexcstacksegment at ffffffff81c009de #5 [ffffc90000857b08] nfslookup at ffffffffa0302322 [nfs] #6 [ffffc90000857b70] _lookupslow at ffffffff813a4a5f #7 [ffffc90000857c60] walkcomponent at ffffffff813a86c4 #8 [ffffc90000857cb8] pathlookupat at ffffffff813a9553 #9 [ffffc90000857cf0] filenamelookup at ffffffff813ab86b

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
9558a007dbc383d48e7f5a123d0b5ff656c71068
Fixed
6015292653d95ba9f72906e2b65e536aa5807d64
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
9558a007dbc383d48e7f5a123d0b5ff656c71068
Fixed
c3ed222745d9ad7b69299b349a64ba533c64a34f

Affected versions

v5.*

v5.15
v5.15-rc5
v5.15-rc6
v5.15-rc7
v5.16
v5.16-rc1
v5.16-rc2
v5.16-rc3
v5.16-rc4
v5.16-rc5
v5.16-rc6
v5.16-rc7
v5.16-rc8
v5.17
v5.17-rc1
v5.17-rc2
v5.17-rc3
v5.17-rc4
v5.17-rc5
v5.17-rc6
v5.17-rc7
v5.17-rc8
v5.18
v5.18-rc1
v5.18-rc2
v5.18-rc3
v5.18-rc4
v5.18-rc5
v5.18-rc6
v5.18-rc7
v5.18.1
v5.18.2

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
5.18.3