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Katalog CVE

CVSS 5.5 · Medium EPSS 0,28%

Kerentanan Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime pada linux kernel. Skor CVSS 3.1 5.5 (Medium) menurut NVD.

Deskripsi (NVD)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer This is reported by kmemleak detector: unreferenced object 0xffffc900002a9000 (size 4096): comm "kexec", pid 14950, jiffies 4295110793 (age 373.951s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .ELF............ 04 00 3e 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..>............. backtrace: [<0000000016a8ef9f>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x101/0x170 [<000000002b66b6c0>] __vmalloc_node+0xb4/0x160 [<00000000ad40107d>] crash_prepare_elf64_headers+0x8e/0xcd0 [<0000000019afff23>] crash_load_segments+0x260/0x470 [<0000000019ebe95c>] bzImage64_load+0x814/0xad0 [<0000000093e16b05>] arch_kexec_kernel_image_load+0x1be/0x2a0 [<000000009ef2fc88>] kimage_file_alloc_init+0x2ec/0x5a0 [<0000000038f5a97a>] __do_sys_kexec_file_load+0x28d/0x530 [<0000000087c19992>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<0000000066e063a4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae In crash_prepare_elf64_headers(), a buffer is allocated via vmalloc() to store elf headers. While it's not freed back to system correctly when kdump kernel is reloaded or unloaded. Then memory leak is caused. Fix it by introducing x86 specific function arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(), and freeing the buffer there. And also remove the incorrect elf header buffer freeing code. Before calling arch specific kexec_file loading function, the image instance has been initialized. So 'image->elf_headers' must be NULL. It doesn't make sense to free the elf header buffer in the place. Three different people have reported three bugs about the memory leak on x86_64 inside Redhat.

Rincian

Terbit di NVD
26 Februari 2025
Terakhir diubah
17 Juni 2026
Status NVD
Modified
CVSS 3.1
5.5 (Medium), sumber NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H · uraikan di kalkulator
Jenis kelemahan (CWE)
CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
EPSS (30 hari)
0,28% peluang dieksploitasi; lebih tinggi dari 18,7% CVE lain

Produk dan versi terdampak

VendorProdukVersi terdampak
linux linux kernel Semua versi sebelum 5.15.46
linux linux kernel Versi 5.16 hingga sebelum 5.17.14
linux linux kernel Versi 5.18 hingga sebelum 5.18.3

> Data dari konfigurasi CPE di NVD.

Referensi dan perbaikan

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