CVE-2022-49914

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.14.299 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at resolve_indirect_refs() During backref walking, at resolve_indirect_refs(), if we get an error we jump to the 'out' label and call ulist_free() on the 'parents' ulist, which frees all the elements in the ulist - however that does not free any inode lists that may be attached to elements, through the 'aux' field of a ulist node, so we end up leaking lists if we have any attached to the unodes. Fix this by calling free_leaf_list() instead of ulist_free() when we exit from resolve_indirect_refs(). The static function free_leaf_list() is moved up for this to be possible and it's slightly simplified by removing unnecessary code.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 15.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-401
Status published

Affected Products (10)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.14.299
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/Kernel < 4.14.299linux
linux/Kernel < 4.19.265linux
linux/Kernel < 5.4.224linux
linux/Kernel < 5.10.154linux
linux/Kernel < 5.15.78linux
linux/Kernel < 6.0.8linux

Timeline

Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026