Bug 2400729 (CVE-2022-50466)

Summary: CVE-2022-50466 kernel: fs/binfmt_elf: Fix memory leak in load_elf_binary()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 12:03:57 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/binfmt_elf: Fix memory leak in load_elf_binary()

There is a memory leak reported by kmemleak:

  unreferenced object 0xffff88817104ef80 (size 224):
    comm "xfs_admin", pid 47165, jiffies 4298708825 (age 1333.476s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
      60 a8 b3 00 81 88 ff ff a8 10 5a 00 81 88 ff ff  `.........Z.....
    backtrace:
      [<ffffffff819171e1>] __alloc_file+0x21/0x250
      [<ffffffff81918061>] alloc_empty_file+0x41/0xf0
      [<ffffffff81948cda>] path_openat+0xea/0x3d30
      [<ffffffff8194ec89>] do_filp_open+0x1b9/0x290
      [<ffffffff8192660e>] do_open_execat+0xce/0x5b0
      [<ffffffff81926b17>] open_exec+0x27/0x50
      [<ffffffff81a69250>] load_elf_binary+0x510/0x3ed0
      [<ffffffff81927759>] bprm_execve+0x599/0x1240
      [<ffffffff8192a997>] do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x4c7/0x680
      [<ffffffff8192b078>] __x64_sys_execve+0x88/0xb0
      [<ffffffff83bbf0a5>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80

If "interp_elf_ex" fails to allocate memory in load_elf_binary(),
the program will take the "out_free_ph" error handing path,
resulting in "interpreter" file resource is not released.

Fix it by adding an error handing path "out_free_file", which will
release the file resource when "interp_elf_ex" failed to allocate
memory.