CVE-2022-49256

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49256
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49256.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49256
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-02-26T01:56:10.599Z
Modified
2026-05-15T11:53:32.704042730Z
Summary
watch_queue: Actually free the watch
Details

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>] keyctlwatchkey+0xec/0x2e0 security/keys/keyctl.c:1800 [<ffffffff8214ec84>] __dosyskeyctl+0x3c4/0x490 security/keys/keyctl.c:2016 [<ffffffff84493a25>] dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff84493a25>] dosyscall64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff84600068>] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x44/0xae

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49256.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.8.0
Fixed
5.10.110
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.33
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
5.16.19
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.17.0
Fixed
5.17.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49256.json"