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
2026-03-12T03:24:55.345810Z
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

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
c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd
Fixed
9d92be1a09fbb3dd65600dbfe7eedb40e7228e4b
Fixed
f69aecb49968e14196366bbe896eab0a904229f5
Fixed
7e8c9b0df07a77f0d072603b8ced2677e30e1893
Fixed
31824613a42aacdcbeb325bf07a1c8247a11ebe2
Fixed
3d8dcf278b1ee1eff1e90be848fa2237db4c07a7

Database specific

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