Bug 2363485 (CVE-2022-49897)
| Summary: | CVE-2022-49897 kernel: fscrypt: fix keyring memory leak on mount failure | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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[REJECTED CVE] In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fscrypt: fix keyring memory leak on mount failure
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Upstream advisory: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050100-CVE-2022-49897-6af8@gregkh/T This CVE has been rejected by the Linux kernel community. Refer to the announcement: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050810-REJECTED-10a2@gregkh/ Comment added by: Automated Script |
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fscrypt: fix keyring memory leak on mount failure Commit d7e7b9af104c ("fscrypt: stop using keyrings subsystem for fscrypt_master_key") moved the keyring destruction from __put_super() to generic_shutdown_super() so that the filesystem's block device(s) are still available. Unfortunately, this causes a memory leak in the case where a mount is attempted with the test_dummy_encryption mount option, but the mount fails after the option has already been processed. To fix this, attempt the keyring destruction in both places.