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CVE-2022-49086

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2022
Source publication
Source updated
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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net: openvswitch: fix leak of nested actions

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: fix leak of nested actions While parsing user-provided actions, openvswitch module may dynamically allocate memory and store pointers in the internal copy of the actions. So this memory has to be freed while destroying the actions. Currently there are only two such actions: ct() and set(). However, there are many actions that can hold nested lists of actions and ovs_nla_free_flow_actions() just jumps over them leaking the memory. For example, removal of the flow with the following actions will lead to a leak of the memory allocated by nf_ct_tmpl_alloc(): actions:clone(ct(commit),0) Non-freed set() action may also leak the 'dst' structure for the tunnel info including device references. Under certain conditions with a high rate of flow rotation that may cause significant memory leak problem (2MB per second in reporter's case). The problem is also hard to mitigate, because the user doesn't have direct control over the datapath flows generated by OVS. Fix that by iterating over all the nested actions and freeing everything that needs to be freed recursively. New build time assertion should protect us from this problem if new actions will be added in the future. Unfortunately, openvswitch module doesn't use NLA_F_NESTED, so all attributes has to be explicitly checked. sample() and clone() actions are mixing extra attributes into the user-provided action list. That prevents some code generalization too.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
34ae932a40369be6bd6ea97d66b6686361b4370daffectedgit7438dc55c0709819b813f4778aec2c48b782990bUnavailableNone listed
34ae932a40369be6bd6ea97d66b6686361b4370daffectedgitef6f9ce0a79aa23b10fc5f3b3cab3814a25aac40UnavailableNone listed
34ae932a40369be6bd6ea97d66b6686361b4370daffectedgit5ae05b5eb58773cfec307ff88aff4cfd843c4cffUnavailableNone listed
34ae932a40369be6bd6ea97d66b6686361b4370daffectedgit837b96d8103938e35e7d92cd9db96af914ca4fffUnavailableNone listed
34ae932a40369be6bd6ea97d66b6686361b4370daffectedgit3554c214b83ec9a839ed574263a34218f372990cUnavailableNone listed
34ae932a40369be6bd6ea97d66b6686361b4370daffectedgit53bce9d19b0a9d245b25cd050b81652ed974a509UnavailableNone listed
34ae932a40369be6bd6ea97d66b6686361b4370daffectedgit1f30fb9166d4f15a1aa19449b9da871fe0ed4796UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
4.3affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver4.3UnavailableNone listed
4.19.249unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.19.*None listed
5.4.200unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.4.*None listed
5.10.111unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.34unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
5.16.20unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.16.*None listed
5.17.3unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.17.*None listed
5.18unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed