Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-49583 - Memory Leak vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iavf: Fix handling of dummy receive descriptors Fix memory leak caused by not handling dummy receive descriptor properly. iavf_get_rx_buffer now sets the rx_buffer return value for dummy receive descriptors. Without this patch, when the hardware writes a dummy descriptor, iavf would not free the page allocated for the previous receive buffer. This is an unlikely event but can still happen. [Jesse: massaged commit message]
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2918419c06088f6709ceb543feb01752779ade4c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6edb818732fc05fda495f5b3a749bd1cee01398b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9f49e0060301a9bfebeca76739158d0cf91cdf6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6af94324911ef0846af1a5ce5e049ca736db34b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d88d59faf4e6f9cc4767664206afdb999b10ec77