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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-48764

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 6/20/2024 8:15:14 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

KVM: x86: Free kvm_cpuid_entry2 array on post-KVM_RUN KVM_SET_CPUID{,2}

Free the "struct kvm_cpuid_entry2" array on successful post-KVM_RUN
KVM_SET_CPUID{,2} to fix a memory leak, the callers of kvm_set_cpuid()
free the array only on failure.

 BUG: memory leak
 unreferenced object 0xffff88810963a800 (size 2048):
  comm "syz-executor025", pid 3610, jiffies 4294944928 (age 8.080s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0d 00 00 00  ................
    47 65 6e 75 6e 74 65 6c 69 6e 65 49 00 00 00 00  GenuntelineI....
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff814948ee>] kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
    [<ffffffff814948ee>] kvmalloc_node+0x3e/0x100 mm/util.c:580
    [<ffffffff814950f2>] kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:732 [inline]
    [<ffffffff814950f2>] vmemdup_user+0x22/0x100 mm/util.c:199
    [<ffffffff8109f5ff>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl_set_cpuid2+0x8f/0xf0 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c:423
    [<ffffffff810711b9>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0xb99/0x1e60 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:5251
    [<ffffffff8103e92d>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x4ad/0x950 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4066
    [<ffffffff815afacc>] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
    [<ffffffff815afacc>] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
    [<ffffffff815afacc>] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline]
    [<ffffffff815afacc>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:860
    [<ffffffff844a3335>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
    [<ffffffff844a3335>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
    [<ffffffff84600068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/811f95ff95270e6048197821434d9301e3d7f07c [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9ee734a14bb685b2088f2176d82b34cb4e30dbc [No types assigned]