CVE-2022-49345
26.02.2025, 07:01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init() EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text section is freed up after the initialization. Hence, modules cannot use symbols annotated __init. The access to a freed symbol may end up with kernel panic. modpost used to detect it, but it has been broken for a decade. Recently, I fixed modpost so it started to warn it again, then this showed up in linux-next builds. There are two ways to fix it: - Remove __init - Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL I chose the latter for this case because the only in-tree call-site, net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c is never compiled as modular. (CONFIG_XFRM is boolean)Enginsight
Vendor | Product | Version |
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linux | linux_kernel | 3.15 ≤ 𝑥 < 4.9.318 |
linux | linux_kernel | 4.10 ≤ 𝑥 < 4.14.283 |
linux | linux_kernel | 4.15 ≤ 𝑥 < 4.19.247 |
linux | linux_kernel | 4.20 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.4.198 |
linux | linux_kernel | 5.5 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.10.122 |
linux | linux_kernel | 5.11 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.15.47 |
linux | linux_kernel | 5.16 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.17.15 |
linux | linux_kernel | 5.18 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.18.4 |
linux | linux_kernel | 5.19:rc1 |
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