CVE-2022-49891

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.6-5.10.153, 5.11-5.15.77, 5.16-6.0.7 - Use-After-Free in Kprobe Test Command

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (15)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.78linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.8linux
linux/Kernel 5.6.0 - 5.10.154linux
Linux/Linux < 5.6
Linux/Linux 5.10.154 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.78 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.6
Linux/Linux 6.0.8 - 6.0.*
Linux/Linux 6.1
Linux/Linux 64836248dda20c8e7427b493f7e06d9bf8f58850 - 66f0919c953ef7b55e5ab94389a013da2ce80a2c
... and 5 more
Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026