CVE-2022-50396
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)
net: sched: fix memory leak in tcindex_set_parms
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sched: fix memory leak in tcindex_set_parms Syzkaller reports a memory leak as follows: ==================================== BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810c287f00 (size 256): comm "syz-executor105", pid 3600, jiffies 4294943292 (age 12.990s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff814cf9f0>] kmalloc_trace+0x20/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1046 [<ffffffff839c9e07>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:576 [inline] [<ffffffff839c9e07>] kmalloc_array include/linux/slab.h:627 [inline] [<ffffffff839c9e07>] kcalloc include/linux/slab.h:659 [inline] [<ffffffff839c9e07>] tcf_exts_init include/net/pkt_cls.h:250 [inline] [<ffffffff839c9e07>] tcindex_set_parms+0xa7/0xbe0 net/sched/cls_tcindex.c:342 [<ffffffff839caa1f>] tcindex_change+0xdf/0x120 net/sched/cls_tcindex.c:553 [<ffffffff8394db62>] tc_new_tfilter+0x4f2/0x1100 net/sched/cls_api.c:2147 [<ffffffff8389e91c>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x4dc/0x5d0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6082 [<ffffffff839eba67>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x87/0x1d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2540 [<ffffffff839eab87>] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline] [<ffffffff839eab87>] netlink_unicast+0x397/0x4c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345 [<ffffffff839eb046>] netlink_sendmsg+0x396/0x710 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921 [<ffffffff8383e796>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline] [<ffffffff8383e796>] sock_sendmsg+0x56/0x80 net/socket.c:734 [<ffffffff8383eb08>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x178/0x410 net/socket.c:2482 [<ffffffff83843678>] ___sys_sendmsg+0xa8/0x110 net/socket.c:2536 [<ffffffff838439c5>] __sys_sendmmsg+0x105/0x330 net/socket.c:2622 [<ffffffff83843c14>] __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2651 [inline] [<ffffffff83843c14>] __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2648 [inline] [<ffffffff83843c14>] __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x24/0x30 net/socket.c:2648 [<ffffffff84605fd5>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff84605fd5>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff84800087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd ==================================== Kernel uses tcindex_change() to change an existing filter properties. Yet the problem is that, during the process of changing, if `old_r` is retrieved from `p->perfect`, then kernel uses tcindex_alloc_perfect_hash() to newly allocate filter results, uses tcindex_filter_result_init() to clear the old filter result, without destroying its tcf_exts structure, which triggers the above memory leak. To be more specific, there are only two source for the `old_r`, according to the tcindex_lookup(). `old_r` is retrieved from `p->perfect`, or `old_r` is retrieved from `p->h`. * If `old_r` is retrieved from `p->perfect`, kernel uses tcindex_alloc_perfect_hash() to newly allocate the filter results. Then `r` is assigned with `cp->perfect + handle`, which is newly allocated. So condition `old_r && old_r != r` is true in this situation, and kernel uses tcindex_filter_result_init() to clear the old filter result, without destroying its tcf_exts structure * If `old_r` is retrieved from `p->h`, then `p->perfect` is NULL according to the tcindex_lookup(). Considering that `cp->h` is directly copied from `p->h` and `p->perfect` is NULL, `r` is assigned with `tcindex_lookup(cp, handle)`, whose value should be the same as `old_r`, so condition `old_r && old_r != r` is false in this situation, kernel ignores using tcindex_filter_result_init() to clear the old filter result. So only when `old_r` is retrieved from `p->perfect` does kernel use tcindex_filter_result_init() to clear the old filter result, which triggers the above memory leak. Considering that there already exists a tc_filter_wq workqueue to destroy the old tcindex_d ---truncated---
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b | affected | git | 53af9c793f644d5841d84d8e0ad83bd7ab47f3e0 | Unavailable | None listed |
| b9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b | affected | git | 01d0d2b8b4e3cf2110baba9371c0c3d04ad5c77b | Unavailable | None listed |
| b9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b | affected | git | 55ac68b53f1cea1926ee2313afc5d66b91daad71 | Unavailable | None listed |
| b9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b | affected | git | 7a6fb69bbcb21e9ce13bdf18c008c268874f0480 | Unavailable | None listed |
| b9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b | affected | git | b314f6c3512108d7a656c5caf07c82d1bbbdc0f1 | Unavailable | None listed |
| b9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b | affected | git | 18c3fa7a7fdbb4d21dafc8a7710ae2c1680930f6 | Unavailable | None listed |
| b9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b | affected | git | 6c55953e232ea668731091d111066521f3b7719b | Unavailable | None listed |
| b9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b | affected | git | 7c183dc0af472dec33d2c0786a5e356baa8cad19 | Unavailable | None listed |
| b9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b | affected | git | c4de6057e7c6654983acb63d939d26ac0d7bbf39 | Unavailable | None listed |
| b9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b | affected | git | facc4405e8b7407e03216207b1d1d640127de0c8 | Unavailable | None listed |
| b9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b | affected | git | 3abebc503a5148072052c229c6b04b329a420ecd | Unavailable | None listed |
| b9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b | affected | git | 399ab7fe0fa0d846881685fd4e57e9a8ef7559f7 | Unavailable | None listed |
| b9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b | affected | git | 372ae77cf11d11fb118cbe2d37def9dd5f826abd | 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.9 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 4.9 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4.14.308 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 4.14.* | None listed |
| 4.19.276 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 4.19.* | None listed |
| 5.4.229 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.4.235 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.10.163 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.10.173 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.87 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 5.15.100 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.0.19 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.0.* | None listed |
| 6.1.5 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.1.18 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.2.5 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.2.* | None listed |
| 6.2 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |