Memory Leak Affecting kernel-modules package, versions *
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- published 9 May 2024
- disclosed 3 May 2024
Introduced: 3 May 2024
CVE-2022-48691 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-modules.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules package and not the kernel-modules package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: clean up hook list when offload flags check fails
splice back the hook list so nft_chain_release_hook() has a chance to release the hooks.
BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810180b100 (size 96): comm "syz-executor133", pid 3619, jiffies 4294945714 (age 12.690s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 28 64 23 02 81 88 ff ff 28 64 23 02 81 88 ff ff (d#.....(d#..... 90 a8 aa 83 ff ff ff ff 00 00 b5 0f 81 88 ff ff ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff83a8c59b>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline] [<ffffffff83a8c59b>] nft_netdev_hook_alloc+0x3b/0xc0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:1901 [<ffffffff83a9239a>] nft_chain_parse_netdev net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:1998 [inline] [<ffffffff83a9239a>] nft_chain_parse_hook+0x33a/0x530 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:2073 [<ffffffff83a9b14b>] nf_tables_addchain.constprop.0+0x10b/0x950 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:2218 [<ffffffff83a9c41b>] nf_tables_newchain+0xa8b/0xc60 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:2593 [<ffffffff83a3d6a6>] nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0xa46/0xd20 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:517 [<ffffffff83a3db79>] nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:638 [inline] [<ffffffff83a3db79>] nfnetlink_rcv+0x1f9/0x220 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:656 [<ffffffff83a13b17>] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline] [<ffffffff83a13b17>] netlink_unicast+0x397/0x4c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345 [<ffffffff83a13fd6>] netlink_sendmsg+0x396/0x710 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921 [<ffffffff83865ab6>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline] [<ffffffff83865ab6>] sock_sendmsg+0x56/0x80 net/socket.c:734 [<ffffffff8386601c>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x36c/0x390 net/socket.c:2482 [<ffffffff8386a918>] ___sys_sendmsg+0xa8/0x110 net/socket.c:2536 [<ffffffff8386aaa8>] __sys_sendmsg+0x88/0x100 net/socket.c:2565 [<ffffffff845e5955>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff845e5955>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff84800087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-48691
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ce55ec5cb7c573c983dffbe290b8d17caf1f157
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77972a36ecc4db7fc7c68f0e80714263c5f03f65
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/910891a2a44cdc49efcc4fe7459c1085ba00d0f4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94ed8eeb8d9aeb00e4f4e19b83a2e28b6442fbc5