CVE-2022-49853

Summary

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

net: macvlan: fix memory leaks of macvlan_common_newlink

kmemleak reports memory leaks in macvlan_common_newlink, as follows:

ip link add link eth0 name .. type macvlan mode source macaddr add <MAC-ADDR>

kmemleak reports:

unreferenced object 0xffff8880109bb140 (size 64): comm "ip", pid 284, jiffies 4294986150 (age 430.108s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b8 aa 5a 12 80 88 ff ff ……….Z….. 80 1b fa 0d 80 88 ff ff 1e ff ac af c7 c1 6b 6b …………..kk backtrace: [<ffffffff813e06a7>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1c7/0x300 [<ffffffff81b66025>] macvlan_hash_add_source+0x45/0xc0 [<ffffffff81b66a67>] macvlan_changelink_sources+0xd7/0x170 [<ffffffff81b6775c>] macvlan_common_newlink+0x38c/0x5a0 [<ffffffff81b6797e>] macvlan_newlink+0xe/0x20 [<ffffffff81d97f8f>] __rtnl_newlink+0x7af/0xa50 [<ffffffff81d98278>] rtnl_newlink+0x48/0x70 …

In the scenario where the macvlan mode is configured as 'source', macvlan_changelink_sources() will be execured to reconfigure list of remote source mac addresses, at the same time, if register_netdevice() return an error, the resource generated by macvlan_changelink_sources() is not cleaned up.

Using this patch, in the case of an error, it will execute macvlan_flush_sources() to ensure that the resource is cleaned up.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxaa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280 < 9f288e338be206713d79b29144c27fca4503c39baffected
LinuxLinuxaa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280 < 21d3a8b6a1e39e7529ce9de07316ee13a63f305baffected
LinuxLinuxaa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280 < a81b44d1df1f07f00c0dcc0a0b3d2fa24a46289eaffected
LinuxLinuxaa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280 < 685e73e3f7a9fb75cbf049a9d0b7c45cc6b57b2eaffected
LinuxLinuxaa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280 < 956e0216a19994443c90ba2ea6b0b284c9c4f9cbaffected
LinuxLinuxaa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280 < a8d67367ab33604326cc37ab44fd1801bf5691baaffected
LinuxLinuxaa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280 < 9ea003c4671b2fc455320ecf6d4a43b0a3c1878aaffected
LinuxLinuxaa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280 < 23569b5652ee8e8e55a12f7835f59af6f3cefc30affected
LinuxLinux4.9affected
LinuxLinux0 < 4.9unaffected
LinuxLinux4.9.334 <= 4.9.*unaffected
LinuxLinux4.14.300 <= 4.14.*unaffected
LinuxLinux4.19.267 <= 4.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.225 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.155 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.79 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.0.9 <= 6.0.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References