CVE-2022-49256
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2022
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
watch_queue: Actually free the watch
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: watch_queue: Actually free the watch free_watch() does everything barring actually freeing the watch object. Fix this by adding the missing kfree. kmemleak produces a report something like the following. Note that as an address can be seen in the first word, the watch would appear to have gone through call_rcu(). BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810ce4a200 (size 96): comm "syz-executor352", pid 3605, jiffies 4294947473 (age 13.720s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): e0 82 48 0d 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..H............. 80 a2 e4 0c 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff8214e6cc>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:581 [inline] [<ffffffff8214e6cc>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:714 [inline] [<ffffffff8214e6cc>] keyctl_watch_key+0xec/0x2e0 security/keys/keyctl.c:1800 [<ffffffff8214ec84>] __do_sys_keyctl+0x3c4/0x490 security/keys/keyctl.c:2016 [<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff84600068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
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
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd | affected | git | 9d92be1a09fbb3dd65600dbfe7eedb40e7228e4b | Unavailable | None listed |
| c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd | affected | git | f69aecb49968e14196366bbe896eab0a904229f5 | Unavailable | None listed |
| c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd | affected | git | 7e8c9b0df07a77f0d072603b8ced2677e30e1893 | Unavailable | None listed |
| c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd | affected | git | 31824613a42aacdcbeb325bf07a1c8247a11ebe2 | Unavailable | None listed |
| c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd | affected | git | 3d8dcf278b1ee1eff1e90be848fa2237db4c07a7 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.8 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 5.8 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.10.110 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.33 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 5.16.19 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.16.* | None listed |
| 5.17.2 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.17.* | None listed |
| 5.18 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |