Vulnerability · Published May 1, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2022-48669powerpc/pseries: Fix potential memleak in papr_get_attr()

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 20% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 80.4% 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: powerpc/pseries: Fix potential memleak in papr_get_attr() `buf` is allocated in papr_get_attr(), and krealloc() of `buf` could fail. We need to free the original `buf` in the case of failure.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8bpftool4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-abi-stablelists4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-core4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-cross-headers4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-core4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-devel4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-modules4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-modules-extra4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-devel4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-doc4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-headers4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-modules4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-modules-extra4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools-libs4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools-libs-devel4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-core4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-devel4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-modules4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8perf4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8python3-perf4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
Debian:12linux6.1.85-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48669
Debian:13linux6.7.12-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48669
Debian:14linux6.7.12-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48669
Rocky Linux:8kernel0:4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10RLSA-2024:3618
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-35.35USN-6816-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-35.35UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1009.9USN-6817-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1009.9UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1008.8USN-6817-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1008.8UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1008.9USN-6817-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1008.9UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1004.7USN-6817-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1004.7UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1006.6USN-6816-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1006.6UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-35.35.1USN-6816-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-35.35.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1006.6USN-6817-2
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1006.6UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1006.6USN-6878-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1006.6UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1005.5UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1005.5USN-6816-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv6.8.0-35.35.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 3c14b73454cf9f6e2146443fdfbdfb912c0efed3 – before a3f22feb2220a945d1c3282e34199e8bcdc5afc43c14b73454cf9f6e2146443fdfbdfb912c0efed3 – before 1699fb915b9f61794d559b55114c09a390aaf2343c14b73454cf9f6e2146443fdfbdfb912c0efed3 – before 7f7d39fe3d80d6143404940b2413010cf65270293c14b73454cf9f6e2146443fdfbdfb912c0efed3 – before d0647c3e81eff62b66d46fd4e475318cb8cb36103c14b73454cf9f6e2146443fdfbdfb912c0efed3 – before cda9c0d556283e2d4adaa9960b2dc19b16156bae
Linux Linux 5.18

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