CVE-2022-49339
MEDIUMAttack Surface
CVSS Vector Breakdown
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv6: unexport __init-annotated seg6_hmac_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 caller (net/ipv6/seg6.c) and the callee (net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c) belong to the same module. It seems an internal function call in ipv6.ko.
Affected Software (11)
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | bf355b8d2c30a289232042cacc1cfaea4923936c < 64aef8efe96c1616142c4476a05731306fc4494e |
| Linux | Linux | bf355b8d2c30a289232042cacc1cfaea4923936c < ab8b2c2de273ec1d698a18e399896a6febb5cda0 |
| Linux | Linux | bf355b8d2c30a289232042cacc1cfaea4923936c < 317260b3eb6384a05a8af212308fa50f3b2e8290 |
| Linux | Linux | bf355b8d2c30a289232042cacc1cfaea4923936c < 5d9c1b081ad28c852a97e10dd75412546497694a |
| Linux | Linux | bf355b8d2c30a289232042cacc1cfaea4923936c < 1084716f76c8045eadf92a9d9a62641f3c8d8c90 |
| Linux | Linux | bf355b8d2c30a289232042cacc1cfaea4923936c < 3e6de5037148c5a93a436b1e8d2edad3dac11755 |
| Linux | Linux | bf355b8d2c30a289232042cacc1cfaea4923936c < 9ba4416b831eeb4d185e88e73488d1d21288e63a |
| Linux | Linux | bf355b8d2c30a289232042cacc1cfaea4923936c < 5801f064e35181c71857a80ff18af4dbec3c5f5c |
| Linux | Linux | 4.10 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 4.10 – 4.14.283 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.19 |