Bug 2348219 (CVE-2022-49190) - CVE-2022-49190 kernel: kernel/resource: fix kfree() of bootmem memory again
Summary: CVE-2022-49190 kernel: kernel/resource: fix kfree() of bootmem memory again
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49190
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2025-02-26 03:21 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-02-26 16:13 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:21:46 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kernel/resource: fix kfree() of bootmem memory again

Since commit ebff7d8f270d ("mem hotunplug: fix kfree() of bootmem
memory"), we could get a resource allocated during boot via
alloc_resource().  And it's required to release the resource using
free_resource().  Howerver, many people use kfree directly which will
result in kernel BUG.  In order to fix this without fixing every call
site, just leak a couple of bytes in such corner case.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 11:52:15 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022616-CVE-2022-49190-3c68@gregkh/T

Comment 4 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 16:12:15 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022616-CVE-2022-49190-3c68@gregkh/T


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