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Tracker / CVE-2022-50288

CVE-2022-50288

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: qlcnic: prevent ->dcb use-after-free on qlcnic_dcb_enable() failure adapter->dcb would get silently freed inside qlcnic_dcb_enable() in case qlcnic_dcb_attach() would return an error, which always happens under OOM conditions. This would lead to use-after-free because both of the existing callers invoke qlcnic_dcb_get_info() on the obtained pointer, which is potentially freed at that point. Propagate errors from qlcnic_dcb_enable(), and instead free the dcb pointer at callsite using qlcnic_dcb_free(). This also removes the now unused qlcnic_clear_dcb_ops() helper, which was a simple wrapper around kfree() also causing memory leaks for partially initialized dcb. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static analysis tool.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 3.14 → 4.14.303
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.270
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.229
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.87
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.0.19
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.163
linux linux_kernel · 6.1 → 6.1.5

Analysis

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