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CVE-2022-49546— x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer

EPSS 0.06% · P17

Affected Version Matrix 12

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxdd5f726076cc7639d9713b334c8c133f77c6757a< 23cf39dccf7653650701a6f39b119e9116a27f1aaffected
dd5f726076cc7639d9713b334c8c133f77c6757a< 8765a423a87d74ef24ea02b43b2728fe4039f248affected
dd5f726076cc7639d9713b334c8c133f77c6757a< 115ee42a4c2f26ba2b4ace2668a3f004621f6833affected
dd5f726076cc7639d9713b334c8c133f77c6757a< f675e3a9189d84a9324ab45b0cb19906c2bc8fcbaffected
dd5f726076cc7639d9713b334c8c133f77c6757a< b3e34a47f98974d0844444c5121aaff123004e57affected
3.17affected
< 3.17unaffected
5.10.236≤ 5.10.*unaffected
… +4 more rows
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Vulnerability Title
x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer This is reported by kmemleak detector: unreferenced object 0xffffc900002a9000 (size 4096): comm "kexec", pid 14950, jiffies 4295110793 (age 373.951s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .ELF............ 04 00 3e 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..>............. backtrace: [<0000000016a8ef9f>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x101/0x170 [<000000002b66b6c0>] __vmalloc_node+0xb4/0x160 [<00000000ad40107d>] crash_prepare_elf64_headers+0x8e/0xcd0 [<0000000019afff23>] crash_load_segments+0x260/0x470 [<0000000019ebe95c>] bzImage64_load+0x814/0xad0 [<0000000093e16b05>] arch_kexec_kernel_image_load+0x1be/0x2a0 [<000000009ef2fc88>] kimage_file_alloc_init+0x2ec/0x5a0 [<0000000038f5a97a>] __do_sys_kexec_file_load+0x28d/0x530 [<0000000087c19992>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<0000000066e063a4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae In crash_prepare_elf64_headers(), a buffer is allocated via vmalloc() to store elf headers. While it's not freed back to system correctly when kdump kernel is reloaded or unloaded. Then memory leak is caused. Fix it by introducing x86 specific function arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(), and freeing the buffer there. And also remove the incorrect elf header buffer freeing code. Before calling arch specific kexec_file loading function, the image instance has been initialized. So 'image->elf_headers' must be NULL. It doesn't make sense to free the elf header buffer in the place. Three different people have reported three bugs about the memory leak on x86_64 inside Redhat.
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于elf头缓冲区的内存泄漏。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
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Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
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Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

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LinuxLinux dd5f726076cc7639d9713b334c8c133f77c6757a ~ 23cf39dccf7653650701a6f39b119e9116a27f1a -
LinuxLinux 3.17 -

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