Vulnerability · Published Feb 26, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2022-49636vlan: fix memory leak in vlan_newlink()

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 23% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 76.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vlan: fix memory leak in vlan_newlink() Blamed commit added back a bug I fixed in commit 9bbd917e0bec ("vlan: fix memory leak in vlan_dev_set_egress_priority") If a memory allocation fails in vlan_changelink() after other allocations succeeded, we need to call vlan_dev_free_egress_priority() to free all allocated memory because after a failed ->newlink() we do not call any methods like ndo_uninit() or dev->priv_destructor(). In following example, if the allocation for last element 2000:2001 fails, we need to free eight prior allocations: ip link add link dummy0 dummy0.100 type vlan id 100 \ egress-qos-map 1:2 2:3 3:4 4:5 5:6 6:7 7:8 8:9 2000:2001 syzbot report was: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888117bd1060 (size 32): comm "syz-executor408", pid 3759, jiffies 4294956555 (age 34.090s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 09 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff83fc60ad>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline] [<ffffffff83fc60ad>] vlan_dev_set_egress_priority+0xed/0x170 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c:193 [<ffffffff83fc6628>] vlan_changelink+0x178/0x1d0 net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c:128 [<ffffffff83fc67c8>] vlan_newlink+0x148/0x260 net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c:185 [<ffffffff838b1278>] rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3363 [inline] [<ffffffff838b1278>] __rtnl_newlink+0xa58/0xdc0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3580 [<ffffffff838b1629>] rtnl_newlink+0x49/0x70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3593 [<ffffffff838ac66c>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x21c/0x5c0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6089 [<ffffffff839f9c37>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x87/0x1d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2501 [<ffffffff839f8da7>] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline] [<ffffffff839f8da7>] netlink_unicast+0x397/0x4c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345 [<ffffffff839f9266>] netlink_sendmsg+0x396/0x710 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921 [<ffffffff8384dbf6>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline] [<ffffffff8384dbf6>] sock_sendmsg+0x56/0x80 net/socket.c:734 [<ffffffff8384e15c>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x36c/0x390 net/socket.c:2488 [<ffffffff838523cb>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x8b/0xd0 net/socket.c:2542 [<ffffffff838525b8>] __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2571 [inline] [<ffffffff838525b8>] __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2580 [inline] [<ffffffff838525b8>] __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2578 [inline] [<ffffffff838525b8>] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x78/0xf0 net/socket.c:2578 [<ffffffff845ad8d5>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff845ad8d5>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff8460006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.18.14-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49636
Debian:13linux5.18.14-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49636
Debian:14linux5.18.14-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-142.152UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-142.152USN-7591-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1086.93USN-7591-4
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1086.93UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1091.100UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1091.100USN-7597-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1091.100.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1085.94USN-7591-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1085.94UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1083.89UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1083.89USN-7591-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1068.76USN-7591-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1068.76UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1078.81UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1078.81USN-7591-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1081.87USN-7591-5
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1081.87UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1082.87UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1082.87USN-7591-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-142.152UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-142.152USN-7591-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1080.81USN-7591-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1080.81UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1039.39USN-7591-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1039.39UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1028.28UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1028.28USN-7591-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1083.89UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1083.89USN-7591-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1080.83USN-7591-6
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1080.83UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1050.54UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49636
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1050.54USN-7602-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux b195d229de401377f70c04e0dff93b342464ec8e – before 549de58dba4bf1b2adc72e9948b9c76fa88be9d262d7ad2c191122119c66361ba6d9f04974b51afe – before df27729a4fe0002dfd80c96fe1c142829c672728842801181864690fdcde73b017cce4c1353a7083 – before f5dc10b910bdac523e5947336445a77066c51bf937aa50c539bcbcc01767e515bd170787fcfc0f33 – before 4c43069bb1097dd6cc1cf0f7c43a36d1f7b3910b37aa50c539bcbcc01767e515bd170787fcfc0f33 – before 72a0b329114b1caa8e69dfa7cdad1dd3c69b86025.4.291 – before 5.4.2925.10.235 – before 5.10.2365.15.142 – before 5.15.180
Linux Linux 5.17

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