Vulnerability · Published Feb 26, 2025 · Assigned by Linux
CVE-2022-49080mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
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: 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); }
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | linux | 5.17.3-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Debian:13 | linux | 5.17.3-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Debian:14 | linux | 5.17.3-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux | 5.15.0-37.39 | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-allwinner-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-aws | 5.15.0-1011.14 | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-aws-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-aws-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-aws-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-azure | 5.15.0-1010.12 | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-azure-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-azure-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-azure-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-azure-fde-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-azure-fde-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-gcp | 5.15.0-1008.12 | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-gcp-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-gcp-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-gcp-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-gke | 5.15.0-1008.10 | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-hwe-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-hwe-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-hwe-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-ibm | 5.15.0-1007.8 | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-intel-iot-realtime | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-intel-iotg | 5.15.0-1008.11 | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-kvm | 5.15.0-1010.11 | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-lowlatency | 5.15.0-37.39 | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-nvidia-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-nvidia-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-oem-5.17 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-oem-6.0 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-oem-6.1 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-oem-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-oracle | 5.15.0-1009.12 | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-oracle-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-raspi | 5.15.0-1011.13 | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | linux-raspi-realtime | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-realtime | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-riscv | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-riscv-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-riscv-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-starfive-5.19 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-starfive-6.2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | linux-starfive-6.5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49080 |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 42288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264 – before 8510c2346d9e47a72b7f018a36ef0c39483e53d642288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264 – before 5e16dc5378abd749a836daa9ee4ab2c8d266899942288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264 – before 39a32f3c06f6d68a530bf9612afa19f50f12e93d42288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264 – before 25f506273b6ae806fd46bfcb6fdaa5b9ec81a05b42288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264 – before f7e183b0a7136b6dc9c7b9b2a85a608a8feba89442288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264 – before 198932a14aeb19a15cf19e51e151d023bc4cd64842288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264 – before 6e00309ac716fa8225f0cbde2cd9c24f0e74ee2142288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264 – before fe39ac59dbbf893b73b24e3184161d0bd06d6651 |
| Linux | Linux | 3.8 |
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8510c2346d9e47a72b7f018a36ef0c39483e53d6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e16dc5378abd749a836daa9ee4ab2c8d2668999
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39a32f3c06f6d68a530bf9612afa19f50f12e93d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25f506273b6ae806fd46bfcb6fdaa5b9ec81a05b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7e183b0a7136b6dc9c7b9b2a85a608a8feba894
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/198932a14aeb19a15cf19e51e151d023bc4cd648
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e00309ac716fa8225f0cbde2cd9c24f0e74ee21
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe39ac59dbbf893b73b24e3184161d0bd06d6651
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ad099559b00ac01c3726e5c95dc3108ef47d03e