CVE-2022-49080
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace
If mpol_new is allocated but not used in restart loop, mpol_new will be freed via mpol_put before returning to the caller. But refcnt is not initialized yet, so mpol_put could not do the right things and might leak the unused mpol_new. This would happen if mempolicy was updated on the shared shmem file while the sp->lock has been dropped during the memory allocation.
This issue could be triggered easily with the below code snippet if there are many processes doing the below work at the same time:
Detalles técnicos trazas, registros y código del informe original
shmid = shmget((key_t)5566, 1024 * PAGE_SIZE, 0666|IPC_CREAT);
shm = shmat(shmid, 0, 0);
loop many times {
mbind(shm, 1024 * PAGE_SIZE, MPOL_LOCAL, mask, maxnode, 0);
mbind(shm + 128 * PAGE_SIZE, 128 * PAGE_SIZE, MPOL_DEFAULT, mask,
maxnode, 0);
}CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 5.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.31%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 22
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-401
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/198932a14aeb19a15cf19e51e151d023bc4cd648
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25f506273b6ae806fd46bfcb6fdaa5b9ec81a05b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39a32f3c06f6d68a530bf9612afa19f50f12e93d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ad099559b00ac01c3726e5c95dc3108ef47d03e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e16dc5378abd749a836daa9ee4ab2c8d2668999
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e00309ac716fa8225f0cbde2cd9c24f0e74ee21
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8510c2346d9e47a72b7f018a36ef0c39483e53d6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7e183b0a7136b6dc9c7b9b2a85a608a8feba894
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe39ac59dbbf893b73b24e3184161d0bd06d6651
JSON original (NVD)
Mostrar
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