CVE-2022-49086

Technical Description

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

net: openvswitch: fix leak of nested actions

While parsing user-provided actions, openvswitch module may dynamically

allocate memory and store pointers in the internal copy of the actions.

So this memory has to be freed while destroying the actions.

Currently there are only two such actions: ct() and set(). However,

there are many actions that can hold nested lists of actions and

ovs_nla_free_flow_actions() just jumps over them leaking the memory.

For example, removal of the flow with the following actions will lead

to a leak of the memory allocated by nf_ct_tmpl_alloc():

actions:clone(ct(commit),0)

Non-freed set() action may also leak the 'dst' structure for the

tunnel info including device references.

Under certain conditions with a high rate of flow rotation that may

cause significant memory leak problem (2MB per second in reporter's

case). The problem is also hard to mitigate, because the user doesn't

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Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References