CVE-2022-48809

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48809
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https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-48809.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-48809
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Published
2024-07-16T12:15:05Z
Modified
2025-08-09T19:01:29Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
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Details

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

net: fix a memleak when uncloning an skb dst and its metadata

When uncloning an skb dst and its associated metadata, a new dst+metadata is allocated and later replaces the old one in the skb. This is helpful to have a non-shared dst+metadata attached to a specific skb.

The issue is the uncloned dst+metadata is initialized with a refcount of 1, which is increased to 2 before attaching it to the skb. When tundstunclone returns, the dst+metadata is only referenced from a single place (the skb) while its refcount is 2. Its refcount will never drop to 0 (when the skb is consumed), leading to a memory leak.

Fix this by removing the call to dsthold in tundst_unclone, as the dst+metadata refcount is already 1.

References

Affected packages