Bug 2425140 (CVE-2022-50748)
| Summary: | CVE-2022-50748 kernel: Kernel: Denial of Service via memory leak in mqueue component | ||
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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: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | rhel-process-autobot, watson-tool-maintainers |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's mqueue (message queue) component. A local attacker with low privileges could exploit a memory leak in the `init_mqueue_fs()` function. This vulnerability occurs when `retire_mq_sysctls` is not called after `setup_mq_sysctls` fails, leading to resource exhaustion. This could result in a Denial of Service (DoS) condition, making the system unavailable.
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipc: mqueue: fix possible memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() commit db7cfc380900 ("ipc: Free mq_sysctls if ipc namespace creation failed") Here's a similar memory leak to the one fixed by the patch above. retire_mq_sysctls need to be called when init_mqueue_fs fails after setup_mq_sysctls.