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Unscored CVE-2022-49636 EUVD-2022-54596GHSA-46vm-5748-8g36

vlan: fix memory leak in vlan_newlink()

Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated May 23, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: kernel Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.15 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.4 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-fips Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.15 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.4 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-fips Package: linux-bluefield Package: linux-fips Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.4 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gcp-fips Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.4 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-ibm-5.15 Package: linux-ibm-5.4 Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-intel-iotg Package: linux-intel-iotg-5.15 Package: linux-kvm Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-tegra Package: linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 Package: linux-nvidia-tegra-igx Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.15 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.4 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-5.4 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.15 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Package: linux-vmware Package: linux-xilinx-zynqmp Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Azure Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

vlan: fix memory leak in vlan_newlink()

Blamed commit added back a bug I fixed in commit 9bbd917e0bec
("vlan: fix memory leak in vlan_dev_set_egress_priority")

If a memory allocation fails in vlan_changelink() after other allocations
succeeded, we need to call vlan_dev_free_egress_priority()
to free all allocated memory because after a failed ->newlink()
we do not call any methods like ndo_uninit() or dev->priv_destructor().

In following example, if the allocation for last element 2000:2001 fails,
we need to free eight prior allocations:

ip link add link dummy0 dummy0.100 type vlan id 100 \
egress-qos-map 1:2 2:3 3:4 4:5 5:6 6:7 7:8 8:9 2000:2001

syzbot report was:

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888117bd1060 (size 32):
comm "syz-executor408", pid 3759, jiffies 4294956555 (age 34.090s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
09 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff83fc60ad>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
[<ffffffff83fc60ad>] vlan_dev_set_egress_priority+0xed/0x170 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c:193
[<ffffffff83fc6628>] vlan_changelink+0x178/0x1d0 net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c:128
[<ffffffff83fc67c8>] vlan_newlink+0x148/0x260 net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c:185
[<ffffffff838b1278>] rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3363 [inline]
[<ffffffff838b1278>] __rtnl_newlink+0xa58/0xdc0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3580
[<ffffffff838b1629>] rtnl_newlink+0x49/0x70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3593
[<ffffffff838ac66c>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x21c/0x5c0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6089
[<ffffffff839f9c37>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x87/0x1d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2501
[<ffffffff839f8da7>] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
[<ffffffff839f8da7>] netlink_unicast+0x397/0x4c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
[<ffffffff839f9266>] netlink_sendmsg+0x396/0x710 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921
[<ffffffff8384dbf6>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
[<ffffffff8384dbf6>] sock_sendmsg+0x56/0x80 net/socket.c:734
[<ffffffff8384e15c>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x36c/0x390 net/socket.c:2488
[<ffffffff838523cb>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x8b/0xd0 net/socket.c:2542
[<ffffffff838525b8>] __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2571 [inline]
[<ffffffff838525b8>] __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2580 [inline]
[<ffffffff838525b8>] __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2578 [inline]
[<ffffffff838525b8>] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x78/0xf0 net/socket.c:2578
[<ffffffff845ad8d5>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[<ffffffff845ad8d5>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
[<ffffffff8460006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.4.291 – < 5.4.292, 5.10.235 – < 5.10.236, 5.15.142 – < 5.15.180, 5.17 5.4.292

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 5.18.14-1 —
Debian 13 linux 5.18.14-1 —
Debian 12 linux 5.18.14-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1069.71 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-142.152 USN-7591-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1086.93 USN-7591-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1091.100 USN-7597-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1091.100.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1085.94 USN-7591-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke +1 5.15.0-1083.89 USN-7591-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1068.76 USN-7591-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1078.81 USN-7591-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1081.87 USN-7591-5
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1082.87 USN-7591-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1080.81 USN-7591-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 5.15.0-1039.39 USN-7591-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-igx 5.15.0-1028.28 USN-7591-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1080.83 USN-7591-6
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.15.0-1050.54 USN-7602-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1079.81 USN-7591-3
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1086.95 USN-7591-3
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.15.0-1086.93+fips1 USN-7591-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.15.0-1091.100+fips1 USN-7597-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-fips 5.15.0-142.152+fips1 USN-7591-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.15.0-1085.94+fips1 USN-7591-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.4.0-1147.157+fips1 USN-7585-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.4.0-1153.160+fips1 USN-7585-3
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips 5.4.0-1121.131 USN-7585-3
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.4.0-1150.159+fips1 USN-7585-2
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux 5.4.0-218.238 USN-7585-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-aws 5.4.0-1147.157 USN-7585-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1086.93~20.04.1 USN-7592-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-azure 5.4.0-1152.159 USN-7585-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1091.100~20.04.1 USN-7598-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.4.0-1106.113 USN-7585-6
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.4.0-1150.159 USN-7585-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1085.94~20.04.1 USN-7592-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 +1 5.15.0-142.152~20.04.1 USN-7593-1, USN-7592-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.4.0-1093.98 USN-7585-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.15 5.15.0-1078.81~20.04.1 USN-7592-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.4.0-1134.143 USN-7585-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1039.39~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.4.0-1145.155 USN-7585-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 +1 5.15.0-1083.89~20.04.1 USN-7655-1, USN-7592-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.4.0-1130.143 USN-7585-7
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1081.85~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.4.0-1065.69 USN-7585-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-aws-5.4 5.4.0-1147.157~18.04.1 USN-7585-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1152.159~18.04.1 USN-7585-4
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.4 5.4.0-1150.159~18.04.1 USN-7585-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-218.238~18.04.1 USN-7585-5
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1093.98~18.04.1 USN-7585-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1145.155~18.04.1 USN-7585-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1130.143~18.04.1 USN-7585-7
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9 bpftool 7.0.0-284.11.1.el9_2 RHSA-2023:2458
RHEL 9 perf +48 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2 RHSA-2023:2458
RHEL 8 perf +26 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8 RHSA-2023:2951

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 2 (CBL-Mariner) kernel 5.15.180.1-1 —

Advisories 22

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