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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-49210

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/26/2025 2:00:58 AM

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

MIPS: pgalloc: fix memory leak caused by pgd_free()

pgd page is freed by generic implementation pgd_free() since commit
f9cb654cb550 ("asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic pgd_free()"),
however, there are scenarios that the system uses more than one page as
the pgd table, in such cases the generic implementation pgd_free() won't
be applicable anymore. For example, when PAGE_SIZE_4KB is enabled and
MIPS_VA_BITS_48 is not enabled in a 64bit system, the macro "PGD_ORDER"
will be set as "1", which will cause allocating two pages as the pgd
table. Well, at the same time, the generic implementation pgd_free()
just free one pgd page, which will result in the memory leak.

The memory leak can be easily detected by executing shell command:
"while true; do ls > /dev/null; grep MemFree /proc/meminfo; done"
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1bf0d78c8cc3cf615a6e7bf33ada70b73592f0a1
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bc5bab9a763d520937e4f3fe8df51c6a1eceb97
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a8501d34b261906e4c76ec9da679f2cb4d309ed
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d29cda15cab086d82d692de016f7249545d4b6b4
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa3d44424579972cc7c4fac3d9cf227798ebdfa0