CVE-2022-50779
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
24/12/2025
Last modified:
24/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_prepare_debugfs_help_string()<br />
<br />
When insert and remove the orangefs module, then debug_help_string will<br />
be leaked:<br />
<br />
unreferenced object 0xffff8881652ba000 (size 4096):<br />
comm "insmod", pid 1701, jiffies 4294893639 (age 13218.530s)<br />
hex dump (first 32 bytes):<br />
43 6c 69 65 6e 74 20 44 65 62 75 67 20 4b 65 79 Client Debug Key<br />
77 6f 72 64 73 20 61 72 65 20 75 6e 6b 6e 6f 77 words are unknow<br />
backtrace:<br />
[] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0<br />
[] orangefs_prepare_debugfs_help_string+0x5e/0x480 [orangefs]<br />
[] _sub_I_65535_1+0x57/0xf70 [crc_itu_t]<br />
[] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0<br />
[] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320<br />
[] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330<br />
[] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0<br />
[] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80<br />
[] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0<br />
<br />
When remove the module, should always free debug_help_string. Should<br />
always free the allocated buffer when change the free_debug_help_string.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19be31668552a198e887762e25bdcc560800ecb4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e7c09121064df93c58bbc49d3d0f608d3f584bd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39529b79b023713d4f2d3479dc0ca43ba99df726
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fc221d9a16339a913a0341d3efc7fef339073e1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44d3eac26a5e5268d11cc342dc202b0d31505c0a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8affa0c6405ee968dcb6030bee2cf719a464752
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba9d3b9cec20957fd86bb1bf525b4ea8b64b2dea
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d23417a5bf3a3afc55de5442eb46e1e60458b0a1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2b8a6aac561a49fe02c99683c40a8b87a9f68fc



