CVE-2022-48933 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nf_tables: fix memory leak during stateful obj update

stateful objects can be updated from the control plane. The transaction logic allocates a temporary object for this purpose.

The ->init function was called for this object so plain kfree() leaks resources. We must call ->destroy function of the object.

nft_obj_destroy does this but it also decrements the module refcount but the update path doesn’t increment it.

To avoid special-casing the update object release do module_get for the update case too and release it via nft_obj_destroy().

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53026346a94c43f35c32b18804041bc483271d87 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e9880e81d3fd6a43c202f205717485290432826 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e96e204ee6fa46702f6c94c3c69a09e69e0eac52 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34bb90e407e3288f610558beaae54ecaa32b11c4 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dad3bdeef45f81a6e90204bcc85360bb76eccec7

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5