CVE-2022-49080

mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace

published February 26, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
22.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace

If mpol_new is allocated but not used in restart loop, mpol_new will be

freed via mpol_put before returning to the caller. But refcnt is not

initialized yet, so mpol_put could not do the right things and might

leak the unused mpol_new. This would happen if mempolicy was updated on

the shared shmem file while the sp->lock has been dropped during the

memory allocation.

This issue could be triggered easily with the below code snippet if

there are many processes doing the below work at the same time:

shmid = shmget((key_t)5566, 1024 * PAGE_SIZE, 0666|IPC_CREAT);

shm = shmat(shmid, 0, 0);

loop many times {

mbind(shm, 1024 * PAGE_SIZE, MPOL_LOCAL, mask, maxnode, 0);

mbind(shm + 128 * PAGE_SIZE, 128 * PAGE_SIZE, MPOL_DEFAULT, mask,

maxnode, 0);

}

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00312 · 22.9th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T01:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 01:54Z
    mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace
    cvelistv5