CVE-2022-49339

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1084716f76c8045eadf92a9d9a62641f3c8d8c90 ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1084716f76c8045eadf92a9d9a62641f3c8d8c90Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/317260b3eb6384a05a8af212308fa50f3b2e8290Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e6de5037148c5a93a436b1e8d2edad3dac11755Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5801f064e35181c71857a80ff18af4dbec3c5f5cPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d9c1b081ad28c852a97e10dd75412546497694aPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64aef8efe96c1616142c4476a05731306fc4494ePatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ba4416b831eeb4d185e88e73488d1d21288e63aPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab8b2c2de273ec1d698a18e399896a6febb5cda0Patch