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CVE-2022-49086 Affecting kernel-debug package, versions *

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0.0
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10

Based on CentOS security rating.

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELDEBUG-8780791
  • published27 Feb 2025
  • disclosed26 Feb 2025
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Introduced: 26 Feb 2025

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How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 kernel-debug.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug package and not the kernel-debug package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

net: openvswitch: fix leak of nested actions

While parsing user-provided actions, openvswitch module may dynamically allocate memory and store pointers in the internal copy of the actions. So this memory has to be freed while destroying the actions.

Currently there are only two such actions: ct() and set(). However, there are many actions that can hold nested lists of actions and ovs_nla_free_flow_actions() just jumps over them leaking the memory.

For example, removal of the flow with the following actions will lead to a leak of the memory allocated by nf_ct_tmpl_alloc():

actions:clone(ct(commit),0)

Non-freed set() action may also leak the 'dst' structure for the tunnel info including device references.

Under certain conditions with a high rate of flow rotation that may cause significant memory leak problem (2MB per second in reporter's case). The problem is also hard to mitigate, because the user doesn't have direct control over the datapath flows generated by OVS.

Fix that by iterating over all the nested actions and freeing everything that needs to be freed recursively.

New build time assertion should protect us from this problem if new actions will be added in the future.

Unfortunately, openvswitch module doesn't use NLA_F_NESTED, so all attributes has to be explicitly checked. sample() and clone() actions are mixing extra attributes into the user-provided action list. That prevents some code generalization too.

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