x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer (Linux Linux)

CVE-2022-49546
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.28 % · percentile 20 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected dd5f726076cc7639d9713b334c8c133f77c6757a < 23cf39dccf7653650701a6f39b119e9116a27f1a ; affected dd5f726076cc7639d9713b334c8c133f77c6757a < 8765a423a87d74ef24ea02b43b2728fe4039f248 ; affected dd5f726076cc7639d9713b334c8c133f77c6757a < 115ee42a4c2f26ba2b4ace2668a3f004621f6833 ; affected dd5f726076cc7639d9713b334c8c133f77c6757a < f675e3a9189d84a9324ab45b0cb19906c2bc8fcb ; affected dd5f726076cc7639d9713b334c8c133f77c6757a < b3e34a47f98974d0844444c5121aaff123004e57
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.17 ; unaffected 0 < 3.17 ; unaffected 5.10.236 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.46 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 5.17.14 ≤ 5.17.* ; unaffected 5.18.3 ≤ 5.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD