CVE-2022-50765
Published: Dec 24, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RISC-V: kexec: Fix memory leak of elf header buffer This is reported by kmemleak detector: unreferenced object 0xff2000000403d000 (size 4096): comm "kexec", pid 146, jiffies 4294900633 (age 64.792s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .ELF............ 04 00 f3 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000566ca97c>] kmemleak_vmalloc+0x3c/0xbe [<00000000979283d8>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x3ac/0x560 [<00000000b4b3712a>] __vmalloc_node+0x56/0x62 [<00000000854f75e2>] vzalloc+0x2c/0x34 [<00000000e9a00db9>] crash_prepare_elf64_headers+0x80/0x30c [<0000000067e8bf48>] elf_kexec_load+0x3e8/0x4ec [<0000000036548e09>] kexec_image_load_default+0x40/0x4c [<0000000079fbe1b4>] sys_kexec_file_load+0x1c4/0x322 [<0000000040c62c03>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x2 In elf_kexec_load(), a buffer is allocated via vzalloc() to store elf headers. While it's not freed back to system when kdump kernel is reloaded or unloaded, or when image->elf_header is successfully set and then fails to load kdump kernel for some reason. Fix it by freeing the buffer in arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup().
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 8acea455fafaf2620b247de6c00774828b618a82 - < 090bfcfc9f14d05154893c67eeaecc56e894fbaeaffected 8acea455fafaf2620b247de6c00774828b618a82 - < cdea2da6787583ecca43594132533a2ac8d7cd21affected 8acea455fafaf2620b247de6c00774828b618a82 - < cbc32023ddbdf4baa3d9dc513a2184a84080a5a2 |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.19unaffected 0 - < 5.19unaffected 6.0.18 - <= 6.0.*unaffected 6.1.4 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.2 - <= * |
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