CVE-2022-49636

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49636
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49636.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49636
Related
Published
2025-02-26T07:01:38Z
Modified
2025-03-11T22:30:51Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

vlan: fix memory leak in vlan_newlink()

Blamed commit added back a bug I fixed in commit 9bbd917e0bec ("vlan: fix memory leak in vlandevsetegresspriority")

If a memory allocation fails in vlanchangelink() after other allocations succeeded, we need to call vlandevfreeegresspriority() to free all allocated memory because after a failed ->newlink() we do not call any methods like ndouninit() or dev->priv_destructor().

In following example, if the allocation for last element 2000:2001 fails, we need to free eight prior allocations:

ip link add link dummy0 dummy0.100 type vlan id 100 \ egress-qos-map 1:2 2:3 3:4 4:5 5:6 6:7 7:8 8:9 2000:2001

syzbot report was:

BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888117bd1060 (size 32): comm "syz-executor408", pid 3759, jiffies 4294956555 (age 34.090s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 09 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff83fc60ad>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline] [<ffffffff83fc60ad>] vlandevsetegresspriority+0xed/0x170 net/8021q/vlandev.c:193 [<ffffffff83fc6628>] vlanchangelink+0x178/0x1d0 net/8021q/vlannetlink.c:128 [<ffffffff83fc67c8>] vlannewlink+0x148/0x260 net/8021q/vlannetlink.c:185 [<ffffffff838b1278>] rtnlnewlinkcreate net/core/rtnetlink.c:3363 [inline] [<ffffffff838b1278>] rtnlnewlink+0xa58/0xdc0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3580 [<ffffffff838b1629>] rtnlnewlink+0x49/0x70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3593 [<ffffffff838ac66c>] rtnetlinkrcvmsg+0x21c/0x5c0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6089 [<ffffffff839f9c37>] netlinkrcvskb+0x87/0x1d0 net/netlink/afnetlink.c:2501 [<ffffffff839f8da7>] netlinkunicastkernel net/netlink/afnetlink.c:1319 [inline] [<ffffffff839f8da7>] netlinkunicast+0x397/0x4c0 net/netlink/afnetlink.c:1345 [<ffffffff839f9266>] netlinksendmsg+0x396/0x710 net/netlink/afnetlink.c:1921 [<ffffffff8384dbf6>] socksendmsgnosec net/socket.c:714 [inline] [<ffffffff8384dbf6>] socksendmsg+0x56/0x80 net/socket.c:734 [<ffffffff8384e15c>] syssendmsg+0x36c/0x390 net/socket.c:2488 [<ffffffff838523cb>] _syssendmsg+0x8b/0xd0 net/socket.c:2542 [<ffffffff838525b8>] _syssendmsg net/socket.c:2571 [inline] [<ffffffff838525b8>] _dosyssendmsg net/socket.c:2580 [inline] [<ffffffff838525b8>] _sesyssendmsg net/socket.c:2578 [inline] [<ffffffff838525b8>] _x64syssendmsg+0x78/0xf0 net/socket.c:2578 [<ffffffff845ad8d5>] dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff845ad8d5>] dosyscall64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff8460006a>] entrySYSCALL64after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.18.14-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.18.14-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}