🛡️ CVE-2022-49959
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-401 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: openvswitch: fix memory leak at failed datapath creation ovs_dp_cmd_new()->ovs_dp_change()->ovs_dp_set_upcall_portids() allocates array via kmalloc. If for some reason new_vport() fails during ovs_dp_cmd_new() dp->upcall_portids must be freed. Add missing kfree. Kmemleak example: unreferenced object 0xffff88800c382500 (size 64): comm "dump_state", pid 323, jiffies 4294955418 (age 104.347s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 5e c2 79 e4 1f 7a 38 c7 09 21 38 0c 80 88 ff ff ^.y..z8..!8..... 03 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 ............(... backtrace: [] ovs_dp_set_upcall_portids+0x38/0xa0 [] ovs_dp_change+0x63/0xe0 [] ovs_dp_cmd_new+0x1f0/0x380 [] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xea/0x150 [] genl_rcv_msg+0xdc/0x1e0 [] netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100 [] genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 [] netlink_unicast+0x23e/0x360 [] netlink_sendmsg+0x24e/0x4b0 [] sock_sendmsg+0x62/0x70 [] ____sys_sendmsg+0x230/0x270 [] ___sys_sendmsg+0x88/0xd0 [] __sys_sendmsg+0x59/0xa0 [] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-401
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-06-18
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-11-14

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux-kernel

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