CVE-2022-49277

jffs2: fix memory leak in jffs2_do_mount_fs

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

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Description

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

jffs2: fix memory leak in jffs2_do_mount_fs

If jffs2_build_filesystem() in jffs2_do_mount_fs() returns an error, we can observe the following kmemleak report:

-------------------------------------------- unreferenced object 0xffff88811b25a640 (size 64): comm "mount", pid 691, jiffies 4294957728 (age 71.952s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffffa493be24>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x584/0x880 [<ffffffffa5423a06>] jffs2_sum_init+0x86/0x130 [<ffffffffa5400e58>] jffs2_do_mount_fs+0x798/0xac0 [<ffffffffa540acf3>] jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30 [<ffffffffa540c00a>] jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0 [...] unreferenced object 0xffff88812c760000 (size 65536): comm "mount", pid 691, jiffies 4294957728 (age 71.952s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ backtrace: [<ffffffffa493a449>] __kmalloc+0x6b9/0x910 [<ffffffffa5423a57>] jffs2_sum_init+0xd7/0x130 [<ffffffffa5400e58>] jffs2_do_mount_fs+0x798/0xac0 [<ffffffffa540acf3>] jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30 [<ffffffffa540c00a>] jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0 [...] --------------------------------------------

This is because the resources allocated in jffs2_sum_init() are not released. Call jffs2_sum_exit() to release these resources to solve the problem.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before 2a9d8184458562e6bf2f40d0e677fc85e2dd3834Affected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before 9a0f6610c7daedd2eace430beeb08a8b7ac80699Affected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before dbe0d0521eaa6a3d235517319266c539bb5c5112Affected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before 0978e9af4559a171ac7a74a1b3ef21804b0a0fa9Affected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before 607d3aab7349f18e0d9dba4100d09d16fe27cacaAffected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before 4392e8aeebc5a4f8073620bccba7de1b1f6d7c88Affected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before 5f34310d1376ca5b2ed798258def2c2ab3cc6699Affected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before c94128470e6fe53d9bd9d16d2d3271813f9d37afAffected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before d051cef784de4d54835f6b6836d98a8f6935772cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.15Affected
  • before 2.6.15Not affected
  • 4.9.311 through 4.9.*Not affected
  • 4.14.276 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.238 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.189 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.110 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.33 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.16.19 through 5.16.*Not affected
  • 5.17.2 through 5.17.*Not affected
  • 5.18 and laterNot affected

References

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