CVE-2022-49410

tracing: Fix potential double free in create_var_ref()

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

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Description

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

tracing: Fix potential double free in create_var_ref()

In create_var_ref(), init_var_ref() is called to initialize the fields of variable ref_field, which is allocated in the previous function call to create_hist_field(). Function init_var_ref() allocates the corresponding fields such as ref_field->system, but frees these fields when the function encounters an error. The caller later calls destroy_hist_field() to conduct error handling, which frees the fields and the variable itself. This results in double free of the fields which are already freed in the previous function.

Fix this by storing NULL to the corresponding fields when they are freed in init_var_ref().

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 067fe038e70f6e64960d26a79c4df5f1413d0f13 to before f8b383f83cb573152c577eca1ef101e89995b72aAffected
  • 067fe038e70f6e64960d26a79c4df5f1413d0f13 to before c27f744ceefadc7bbeb14233b6abc150ced617d2Affected
  • 067fe038e70f6e64960d26a79c4df5f1413d0f13 to before 058cb6d86b9789377216c936506b346aaa1eb581Affected
  • 067fe038e70f6e64960d26a79c4df5f1413d0f13 to before 37443b3508b8cce6832f8d25cb4550b2f7801f50Affected
  • 067fe038e70f6e64960d26a79c4df5f1413d0f13 to before 4fdfb15e08598711dbf50daf56a33965232daf0eAffected
  • 067fe038e70f6e64960d26a79c4df5f1413d0f13 to before bd83ff3bbfb003832481c9bff999d12385f396aeAffected
  • 067fe038e70f6e64960d26a79c4df5f1413d0f13 to before 99696a2592bca641eb88cc9a80c90e591afebd0fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.17Affected
  • before 4.17Not affected
  • 4.19.247 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.198 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.121 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.46 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.17.14 through 5.17.*Not affected
  • 5.18.3 through 5.18.*Not affected
  • 5.19 and laterNot affected

References

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