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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-49878

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 5/01/2025 11:16:12 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

bpf, verifier: Fix memory leak in array reallocation for stack state

If an error (NULL) is returned by krealloc(), callers of realloc_array()
were setting their allocation pointers to NULL, but on error krealloc()
does not touch the original allocation. This would result in a memory
resource leak. Instead, free the old allocation on the error handling
path.

The memory leak information is as follows as also reported by Zhengchao:

  unreferenced object 0xffff888019801800 (size 256):
  comm "bpf_repo", pid 6490, jiffies 4294959200 (age 17.170s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<00000000b211474b>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x45/0xc0
    [<0000000086712a0b>] krealloc+0x83/0xd0
    [<00000000139aab02>] realloc_array+0x82/0xe2
    [<00000000b1ca41d1>] grow_stack_state+0xfb/0x186
    [<00000000cd6f36d2>] check_mem_access.cold+0x141/0x1341
    [<0000000081780455>] do_check_common+0x5358/0xb350
    [<0000000015f6b091>] bpf_check.cold+0xc3/0x29d
    [<000000002973c690>] bpf_prog_load+0x13db/0x2240
    [<00000000028d1644>] __sys_bpf+0x1605/0x4ce0
    [<00000000053f29bd>] __x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xb0
    [<0000000056fedaf5>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
    [<000000002bd58261>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06615967d4889b08b19ff3dda96e8b131282f73d
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e210891c4a4c2d858cd6f9f61d5809af251d4df
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42378a9ca55347102bbf86708776061d8fe3ece2