Vulnerability · Published Feb 26, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2022-49390macsec: fix UAF bug for real_dev

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity use-after-free 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 19% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 80.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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: ================================================================== 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 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.18.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49390
Debian:13linux5.18.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49390
Debian:14linux5.18.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-164.174UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-164.174USN-7928-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1098.105UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1098.105USN-7928-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1102.111USN-7928-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1102.111UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1102.111.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1098.107UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1098.107USN-7928-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1094.100USN-7928-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1094.100UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1081.89UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1081.89USN-7928-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1092.95UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1092.95USN-7928-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1093.99UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1093.99USN-7928-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1090.95UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1090.95USN-7928-5
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-164.174UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-164.174USN-7928-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1093.94USN-7928-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1093.94UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1050.50UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1050.50USN-7928-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1039.39UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1039.39USN-7928-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1095.101USN-7928-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1095.101UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1092.95UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1092.95USN-7928-4
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1062.66UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49390
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1062.66USN-7928-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 2bce1ebed17da54c65042ec2b962e3234bad5b47 – before 78933cbc143b82d02330e00900d2fd08f2682f4e2bce1ebed17da54c65042ec2b962e3234bad5b47 – before d130282179aa6051449ac8f8df1115769998a6652bce1ebed17da54c65042ec2b962e3234bad5b47 – before 196a888ca6571deb344468e1d7138e32732063351861904a6092ed411203c6a02c75bfc45b27cc3c3a2675a2d97a68332fa5c33043038bfeb31455a8b0add6db3d5ec4561cab257358871a9d3df7f0a34.14.154 – before 4.154.19.84 – before 4.20
Linux Linux 5.4

Weakness: CWE-416 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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