CVE-2022-49390

Estado: AnalizadaAlta (7.8)—

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

macsec: fix UAF bug for real_dev

Create a new macsec device but not get reference to real_dev. That can not ensure that real_dev is freed after macsec. That will trigger the UAF bug for real_dev as following:

After commit faab39f63c1f ("net: allow out-of-order netdev unregistration") and commit e5f80fcf869a ("ipv6: give an IPv6 dev to blackhole_netdev"), we can add dev_hold_track() in macsec_dev_init() and dev_put_track() in macsec_free_netdev() to fix the problem.

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==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in macsec_get_iflink+0x5f/0x70 drivers/net/macsec.c:3662
Call Trace:
 ...
 macsec_get_iflink+0x5f/0x70 drivers/net/macsec.c:3662
 dev_get_iflink+0x73/0xe0 net/core/dev.c:637
 default_operstate net/core/link_watch.c:42 [inline]
 rfc2863_policy+0x233/0x2d0 net/core/link_watch.c:54
 linkwatch_do_dev+0x2a/0x150 net/core/link_watch.c:161

Allocated by task 22209:
 ...
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0x98/0x1100 net/core/dev.c:10549
 rtnl_create_link+0x9d7/0xc00 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3235
 veth_newlink+0x20e/0xa90 drivers/net/veth.c:1748

Freed by task 8:
 ...
 kfree+0xd6/0x4d0 mm/slub.c:4552
 kvfree+0x42/0x50 mm/util.c:615
 device_release+0x9f/0x240 drivers/base/core.c:2229
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:673 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:704 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x1c8/0x540 lib/kobject.c:721
 netdev_run_todo+0x72e/0x10b0 net/core/dev.c:10327

CVSS

Versión: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Puntuación base: 7.8

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.27%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 18
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).

🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK

Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.

ExplotaciónT1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalationprivilege escalation85 %
Impacto principalT1059 Command and Scripting Interpreterexecution75 %

Vulnerabilidad UAF (CWE-416) en driver macsec del kernel Linux con acceso local (AV:L) y privilegios (PR:L) sin interacción. Permite ejecución de código arbitrario al liberar referencias incorrectamente.

Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.

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Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Linux — Linux Kernel

CWE

CWE-416

Referencias

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