CVE-2022-49256
watch_queue: Actually free the watch
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Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
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>] keyctl_watch_key+0xec/0x2e0 security/keys/keyctl.c:1800 [<ffffffff8214ec84>] __do_sys_keyctl+0x3c4/0x490 security/keys/keyctl.c:2016 [<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff84600068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
CVSS Scores
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Timeline
- 2025-02-26 CVE Reserved
- 2025-02-26 CVE Published
- 2025-02-26 CVE Updated
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CWE
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References (6)
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd | Vuln. Introduced |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.8 < 5.10.110 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.8 < 5.10.110" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.8 < 5.15.33 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.8 < 5.15.33" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.8 < 5.16.19 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.8 < 5.16.19" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.8 < 5.17.2 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.8 < 5.17.2" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.8 < 5.18 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.8 < 5.18" | en |
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