CVE-2022-49183

net/sched: act_ct: fix ref leak when switching zones

Medium · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net/sched: act_ct: fix ref leak when switching zones

When switching zones or network namespaces without doing a ct clear in

between, it is now leaking a reference to the old ct entry. That's

because tcf_ct_skb_nfct_cached() returns false and

tcf_ct_flow_table_lookup() may simply overwrite it.

The fix is to, as the ct entry is not reusable, free it already at

tcf_ct_skb_nfct_cached().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00271 · 18.3th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T01:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 01:55Z
    net/sched: act_ct: fix ref leak when switching zones
    cvelistv5