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GHSA-WX6J-JWH7-WQ64

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-01 15:31 – Updated: 2025-11-07 21:31

Details

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

nvmet: fix a memory leak in nvmet_auth_set_key

When changing dhchap secrets we need to release the old secrets as well.

kmemleak complaint:

unreferenced object 0xffff8c7f44ed8180 (size 64): comm "check", pid 7304, jiffies 4295686133 (age 72034.246s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 44 48 48 43 2d 31 3a 30 30 3a 4c 64 4c 4f 64 71 DHHC-1:00:LdLOdq 79 56 69 67 77 48 55 32 6d 5a 59 4c 7a 35 59 38 yVigwHU2mZYLz5Y8 backtrace: [<00000000b6fc5071>] kstrdup+0x2e/0x60 [<00000000f0f4633f>] 0xffffffffc0e07ee6 [<0000000053006c05>] 0xffffffffc0dff783 [<00000000419ae922>] configfs_write_iter+0xb1/0x120 [<000000008183c424>] vfs_write+0x2be/0x3c0 [<000000009005a2a5>] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 [<00000000cd495c89>] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [<00000000f2a84ac5>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "modified": "2025-11-07T21:31:19Z",
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CVE-2022-49807 (GCVE-0-2022-49807)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 14:09 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:07

Title

nvmet: fix a memory leak in nvmet_auth_set_key

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet: fix a memory leak in nvmet_auth_set_key When changing dhchap secrets we need to release the old secrets as well. kmemleak complaint: -- unreferenced object 0xffff8c7f44ed8180 (size 64): comm "check", pid 7304, jiffies 4295686133 (age 72034.246s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 44 48 48 43 2d 31 3a 30 30 3a 4c 64 4c 4f 64 71 DHHC-1:00:LdLOdq 79 56 69 67 77 48 55 32 6d 5a 59 4c 7a 35 59 38 yVigwHU2mZYLz5Y8 backtrace: [<00000000b6fc5071>] kstrdup+0x2e/0x60 [<00000000f0f4633f>] 0xffffffffc0e07ee6 [<0000000053006c05>] 0xffffffffc0dff783 [<00000000419ae922>] configfs_write_iter+0xb1/0x120 [<000000008183c424>] vfs_write+0x2be/0x3c0 [<000000009005a2a5>] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 [<00000000cd495c89>] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [<00000000f2a84ac5>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65710ea51d4a18559…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a52566279b4ee65e…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 , < 65710ea51d4a185592c7b14c9e33d0c4a364f074 (git) Affected: db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 , < 0a52566279b4ee65ecd2503d7b7342851f84755c (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.0 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver) Unaffected: 6.0.10 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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