CVE-2022-49891

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: kprobe: Fix memory leak in test_gen_kprobe/kretprobe_cmd() test_gen_kprobe_cmd() only free buf in fail path, hence buf will leak when there is no failure. Move kfree(buf) from fail path to common path to prevent the memleak. The same reason and solution in test_gen_kretprobe_cmd(). unreferenced object 0xffff888143b14000 (size 2048): comm "insmod", pid 52490, jiffies 4301890980 (age 40.553s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 70 3a 6b 70 72 6f 62 65 73 2f 67 65 6e 5f 6b 70 p:kprobes/gen_kp 72 6f 62 65 5f 74 65 73 74 20 64 6f 5f 73 79 73 robe_test do_sys backtrace: [<000000006d7b836b>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0 [<0000000009528b5b>] 0xffffffffa059006f [<000000008408b580>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0 [<00000000c4980a7e>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320 [<00000000d775aad0>] load_module+0x3006/0x3390 [<00000000e9a74b80>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0 [<000000003726480d>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<000000003441e93b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedMay 1, 2025
First seenMay 1, 2025
Weakness typeCWE-401CWE-401

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel5.10.154, 5.15.78, 6.0.8 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel5.6 ≤ v < 5.10.154, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.78, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.0.8, 6.15.10.154, 5.15.78, 6.0.8

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