CVE-2022-50288: vulnerability in Linux
qlcnic: prevent ->dcb use-after-free on qlcnic_dcb_enable() failure
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 95% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
qlcnic: prevent ->dcb use-after-free on qlcnic_dcb_enable() failure
adapter->dcb would get silently freed inside qlcnic_dcb_enable() in
case qlcnic_dcb_attach() would return an error, which always happens
under OOM conditions. This would lead to use-after-free because both
of the existing callers invoke qlcnic_dcb_get_info() on the obtained
pointer, which is potentially freed at that point.
Propagate errors from qlcnic_dcb_enable(), and instead free the dcb
pointer at callsite using qlcnic_dcb_free(). This also removes the now
unused qlcnic_clear_dcb_ops() helper, which was a simple wrapper around
kfree() also causing memory leaks for partially initialized dcb.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE
static analysis tool.
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13a7c8964afcd8ca43c0b6001ebb0127baa95362https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36999236f0b12d5de21a6f40e93b570727b9ceb2https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/513787ff9a331b461115e8a145a983d650a84fcbhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8df1dc04ce0e4c03b51a756749c250a9cb17d707https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f97eeb02a553cdc78c83a0596448a370e1518c4https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95df720e64a6409d8152827a776c43f615e3321ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2a694e6edbdb3efb34e1613a31fdcf6cf444a55https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d12a7510293d3370b234b0b7c5eda33e58786768