In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer This is reported by kmemleak detector: unreferenced object 0xffffc900002a9000 (size 4096): comm "kexec", pid 14950, jiffies 4295110793 (age 373.951s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .ELF............ 04 00 3e 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..>............. backtrace: [<0000000016a8ef9f>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x101/0x170 [<000000002b66b6c0>] __vmalloc_node+0xb4/0x160 [<00000000ad40107d>] crash_prepare_elf64_headers+0x8e/0xcd0 [<0000000019afff23>] crash_load_segments+0x260/0x470 [<0000000019ebe95c>] bzImage64_load+0x814/0xad0 [<0000000093e16b05>] arch_kexec_kernel_image_load+0x1be/0x2a0 [<000000009ef2fc88>] kimage_file_alloc_init+0x2ec/0x5a0 [<0000000038f5a97a>] __do_sys_kexec_file_load+0x28d/0x530 [<0000000087c19992>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<0000000066e063a4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae In crash_prepare_elf64_headers(), a buffer is allocated via vmalloc() to store elf headers. While it's not freed back to system correctly when kdump kernel is reloaded or unloaded. Then memory leak is caused. Fix it by introducing x86 specific function arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(), and freeing the buffer there. And also remove the incorrect elf header buffer freeing code. Before calling arch specific kexec_file loading function, the image instance has been initialized. So 'image->elf_headers' must be NULL. It doesn't make sense to free the elf header buffer in the place. Three different people have reported three bugs about the memory leak on x86_64 inside Redhat.
総合評価: CVE-2022-49546 は低リスク(28.4/100)。CVSS 深刻度は中。悪用される可能性が高い(EPSS 0.27%、18 パーセンタイル) 推奨対応: 悪用情報と EPSS の推移を監視し、必要に応じて優先度を見直してください。
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EPSS は日次で悪用されやすさの相対度合いを推定します。パーセンタイルは採点済み CVE の中での相対位置(高いほど相対的に深刻)を示します。
| # | 日付 | 旧 EPSS スコア | 新 EPSS スコア | Δ(新 − 旧) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.04% | 0.27% | +0.23% |
| 2 | 2026-05-26 | 0.06% | 0.04% | -0.02% |
| 3 | 2026-04-06 | — | 0.06% | — |
EPSS の全履歴 (全 6 件)
この CVE の CVSS 指標。
| ベーススコア | バージョン | 深刻度 | ベクトル | 悪用しやすさ | 影響 | スコアの出典 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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1.8 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2022-49546 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-49546 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49546 |
suse
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low | — | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49546/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2022-49546 medium priority: Ubuntu including 158 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1551 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1145, ignored 150, released 114, not-affected 100, needed 42. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-49546 |
| ベンダー | 製品 | バージョン | 生の CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | < 5.15.46 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 5.16, < 5.17.14 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 5.18, < 5.18.3 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |