CVE-2022-49801

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.10.190-5.11 - Use-After-Free in tracing_read_pipe

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Fix memory leak in tracing_read_pipe() kmemleak reports this issue: unreferenced object 0xffff888105a18900 (size 128): comm "test_progs", pid 18933, jiffies 4336275356 (age 22801.766s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 25 73 00 90 81 88 ff ff 26 05 00 00 42 01 58 04 %s......&...B.X. 03 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000560143a1>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4a/0x140 [<000000006af00822>] krealloc+0x8d/0xf0 [<00000000c309be6a>] trace_iter_expand_format+0x99/0x150 [<000000005a53bdb6>] trace_check_vprintf+0x1e0/0x11d0 [<0000000065629d9d>] trace_event_printf+0xb6/0xf0 [<000000009a690dc7>] trace_raw_output_bpf_trace_printk+0x89/0xc0 [<00000000d22db172>] print_trace_line+0x73c/0x1480 [<00000000cdba76ba>] tracing_read_pipe+0x45c/0x9f0 [<0000000015b58459>] vfs_read+0x17b/0x7c0 [<000000004aeee8ed>] ksys_read+0xed/0x1c0 [<0000000063d3d898>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<00000000a06dda7f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd iter->fmt alloced in tracing_read_pipe() -> .. ->trace_iter_expand_format(), but not freed, to fix, add free in tracing_release_pipe()

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (12)
Linux/Linux < 5.12
Linux/Linux 5.10.190 - 5.11
Linux/Linux 5.12
Linux/Linux 5.15.80 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.0.10 - 6.0.*
Linux/Linux 6.1
Linux/Linux 840ce9cfc86f89c335625ec297acc0375f82e19b
Linux/Linux efbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce - 2c21ee020ce43d744ecd7f3e9bddfcaafef270ce
Linux/Linux efbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce - 649e72070cbbb8600eb823833e4748f5a0815116
Linux/Linux efbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce - a7d3f8f33c113478737bc61bb32ec5f9a987da7d
... and 2 more
Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026