CVE-2022-49803

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.7-6.0.9 - Use-After-Free in netdevsim fa_cookie Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netdevsim: Fix memory leak of nsim_dev->fa_cookie kmemleak reports this issue: unreferenced object 0xffff8881bac872d0 (size 8): comm "sh", pid 58603, jiffies 4481524462 (age 68.065s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 04 00 00 00 de ad be ef ........ backtrace: [<00000000c80b8577>] __kmalloc+0x49/0x150 [<000000005292b8c6>] nsim_dev_trap_fa_cookie_write+0xc1/0x210 [netdevsim] [<0000000093d78e77>] full_proxy_write+0xf3/0x180 [<000000005a662c16>] vfs_write+0x1c5/0xaf0 [<000000007aabf84a>] ksys_write+0xed/0x1c0 [<000000005f1d2e47>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<000000006001c6ec>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd The issue occurs in the following scenarios: nsim_dev_trap_fa_cookie_write() kmalloc() fa_cookie nsim_dev->fa_cookie = fa_cookie .. nsim_drv_remove() The fa_cookie allocked in nsim_dev_trap_fa_cookie_write() is not freed. To fix, add kfree(nsim_dev->fa_cookie) to nsim_drv_remove().

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 (11)
linux/Kernel 5.7.0 - 6.0.10linux
Linux/Linux < 5.7
Linux/Linux 5.15.209 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.7
Linux/Linux 6.0.10 - 6.0.*
Linux/Linux 6.1
Linux/Linux d3cbb907ae57fe5da314b51d949b617b538bdeae - 064bc7312bd09a48798418663090be0c776183db
Linux/Linux d3cbb907ae57fe5da314b51d949b617b538bdeae - 207edad5717e0a5709ce8467f0eff41c607835c9
Linux/Linux d3cbb907ae57fe5da314b51d949b617b538bdeae - 6d463ddd0107d4188229d996dcdd45c99bad8af7
linux/linux_kernel 6.1 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
... and 1 more
Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026