Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49210): linux vulnerability
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: pgalloc: fix memory leak caused by pgd_free() pgd page is freed by generic implementation pgd_free() since commit f9cb654cb550 ("asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic pgd_free()"), however, there are scenarios that the system uses more than one page as the pgd table, in such cases the generic implementation pgd_free() won't be applicable anymore. For example, when PAGE_SIZE_4KB is enabled and MIPS_VA_BITS_48 is not enabled in a 64bit system, the macro "PGD_ORDER" will be set as "1", which will cause allocating two pages as the pgd table. Well, at the same time, the generic implementation pgd_free() just free one pgd page, which will result in the memory leak. The memory leak can be easily detected by executing shell command: "while true; do ls > /dev/null; grep MemFree /proc/meminfo; done"
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-aws
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-azure
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-azure-5-15
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gcp
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gke
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-hwe-5-15
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-ibm
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-intel-iotg
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-intel-iotg-5-15
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-kvm
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-lowlatency
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-lowlatency-hwe-5-15
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-oracle
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-raspi
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-realtime
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