Information Disclosure
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
How It Works
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security. This happens through multiple channels: verbose error messages that display stack traces revealing internal paths and frameworks, improperly secured debug endpoints left active in production, and misconfigured servers that expose directory listings or version control artifacts like .git folders. APIs often leak excessive data in responses—returning full user objects when only a name is needed, or revealing system internals through metadata fields.
Attackers exploit these exposures systematically. They probe for common sensitive files (.env, config.php, backup archives), trigger error conditions to extract framework details, and analyze response timing or content differences to enumerate valid usernames or resources. Even subtle variations—like "invalid password" versus "user not found"—enable account enumeration. Exposed configuration files frequently contain database credentials, API keys, or internal service URLs that unlock further attack vectors.
The attack flow typically starts with passive reconnaissance: examining HTTP headers, JavaScript bundles, and public endpoints for version information and architecture clues. Active probing follows—testing predictable paths, manipulating parameters to trigger exceptions, and comparing responses across similar requests to identify information leakage patterns.
Impact
- Credential compromise: Exposed configuration files, hardcoded secrets in source code, or API keys enable direct authentication bypass
- Attack surface mapping: Stack traces, framework versions, and internal paths help attackers craft targeted exploits for known vulnerabilities
- Data breach: Direct exposure of user data, payment information, or proprietary business logic through oversharing APIs or accessible backups
- Privilege escalation pathway: Internal URLs, service discovery information, and architecture details facilitate lateral movement and SSRF attacks
- Compliance violations: GDPR, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA penalties for exposing regulated data through preventable disclosures
Real-World Examples
A major Git repository exposure affected thousands of websites when .git folders remained accessible on production servers, allowing attackers to reconstruct entire source code histories including deleted commits containing credentials. Tools like GitDumper automated mass exploitation of this misconfiguration.
Cloud storage misconfigurations have repeatedly exposed sensitive data when companies left S3 buckets or Azure Blob containers publicly readable. One incident exposed 150 million voter records because verbose API error messages revealed the storage URL structure, and no authentication was required.
Framework debug modes left enabled in production have caused numerous breaches. Django's DEBUG=True setting exposed complete stack traces with database queries and environment variables, while Laravel's debug pages revealed encryption keys through the APP_KEY variable in environment dumps.
Mitigation
- Generic error pages: Return uniform error messages to users; log detailed exceptions server-side only
- Disable debug modes: Enforce production configurations that suppress stack traces, verbose logging, and debug endpoints through deployment automation
- Access control audits: Restrict or remove development artifacts (
.git, backup files,phpinfo()) and internal endpoints before deployment - Response minimization: API responses should return only necessary fields; implement allowlists rather than blocklists for data exposure
- Security headers: Deploy
X-Content-Type-Options, remove server version banners, and disable directory indexing - Timing consistency: Ensure authentication and validation responses take uniform time regardless of input validity
Recent CVEs (74817)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix uninitialized variable use in `wil_write_file_wmi()` Commit 7a4836560a61 changes simple_write_to_buffer() with memdup_user() but it forgets to change the value to be returned that came from simple_write_to_buffer() call. It results in the following warning: warning: variable 'rc' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized] return rc; ^~ Remove rc variable and just return the passed in length if the memdup_user() succeeds.
Kernel memory corruption vulnerability in the Linux kernel's iwlwifi driver (Intel WiFi module) that allows a local privileged attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability stems from improper list management in the iwl_mvm_mac_wake_tx_queue function, where disabled station queues are not properly cleaned up, leading to list_add corruption when new elements are added. Affected users are those running Linux kernel versions containing the vulnerable iwlwifi mvm driver on systems with Intel WiFi adapters; the vulnerability requires local access and low privileges to exploit.
CVE-2022-50162 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50161 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50160 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50159 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50158 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50157 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50155 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50154 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50153 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50152 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
Memory allocation flag misuse vulnerability in the Linux kernel's USB Cadence3 (cdns3) driver that triggers kernel warnings and potentially causes memory allocation failures during driver initialization. The vulnerability affects systems using the cdns3 USB controller driver (primarily ARM-based systems like i.MX8), and while the CVSS score is 7.8 (high), the actual impact is denial of service through resource exhaustion rather than privilege escalation. The issue is not actively exploited in the wild, but the fix is straightforward and widely available in upstream kernel patches.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: driver core: fix potential deadlock in __driver_attach In __driver_attach function, There are also AA deadlock problem, like the commit b232b02bf3c2 ("driver core: fix deadlock in __device_attach"). stack like commit b232b02bf3c2 ("driver core: fix deadlock in __device_attach"). list below: In __driver_attach function, The lock holding logic is as follows: ... __driver_attach if (driver_allows_async_probing(drv)) device_lock(dev) // get lock dev async_schedule_dev(__driver_attach_async_helper, dev); // func async_schedule_node async_schedule_node_domain(func) entry = kzalloc(sizeof(struct async_entry), GFP_ATOMIC); /* when fail or work limit, sync to execute func, but __driver_attach_async_helper will get lock dev as will, which will lead to A-A deadlock. */ if (!entry || atomic_read(&entry_count) > MAX_WORK) { func; else queue_work_node(node, system_unbound_wq, &entry->work) device_unlock(dev) As above show, when it is allowed to do async probes, because of out of memory or work limit, async work is not be allowed, to do sync execute instead. it will lead to A-A deadlock because of __driver_attach_async_helper getting lock dev. Reproduce: and it can be reproduce by make the condition (if (!entry || atomic_read(&entry_count) > MAX_WORK)) untenable, like below: [ 370.785650] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 370.787154] task:swapper/0 state:D stack: 0 pid: 1 ppid: 0 flags:0x00004000 [ 370.788865] Call Trace: [ 370.789374] <TASK> [ 370.789841] __schedule+0x482/0x1050 [ 370.790613] schedule+0x92/0x1a0 [ 370.791290] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x2c/0x50 [ 370.792256] __mutex_lock.isra.0+0x757/0xec0 [ 370.793158] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x1f/0x30 [ 370.794079] mutex_lock+0x50/0x60 [ 370.794795] __device_driver_lock+0x2f/0x70 [ 370.795677] ? driver_probe_device+0xd0/0xd0 [ 370.796576] __driver_attach_async_helper+0x1d/0xd0 [ 370.797318] ? driver_probe_device+0xd0/0xd0 [ 370.797957] async_schedule_node_domain+0xa5/0xc0 [ 370.798652] async_schedule_node+0x19/0x30 [ 370.799243] __driver_attach+0x246/0x290 [ 370.799828] ? driver_allows_async_probing+0xa0/0xa0 [ 370.800548] bus_for_each_dev+0x9d/0x130 [ 370.801132] driver_attach+0x22/0x30 [ 370.801666] bus_add_driver+0x290/0x340 [ 370.802246] driver_register+0x88/0x140 [ 370.802817] ? virtio_scsi_init+0x116/0x116 [ 370.803425] scsi_register_driver+0x1a/0x30 [ 370.804057] init_sd+0x184/0x226 [ 370.804533] do_one_initcall+0x71/0x3a0 [ 370.805107] kernel_init_freeable+0x39a/0x43a [ 370.805759] ? rest_init+0x150/0x150 [ 370.806283] kernel_init+0x26/0x230 [ 370.806799] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 To fix the deadlock, move the async_schedule_dev outside device_lock, as we can see, in async_schedule_node_domain, the parameter of queue_work_node is system_unbound_wq, so it can accept concurrent operations. which will also not change the code logic, and will not lead to deadlock.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: dwc: Deallocate EPC memory on dw_pcie_ep_init() errors If dw_pcie_ep_init() fails to perform any action after the EPC memory is initialized and the MSI memory region is allocated, the latter parts won't be undone thus causing a memory leak. Add a cleanup-on-error path to fix these leaks. [bhelgaas: commit log]
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: intel_th: Fix a resource leak in an error handling path If an error occurs after calling 'pci_alloc_irq_vectors()', 'pci_free_irq_vectors()' must be called as already done in the remove function.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memstick/ms_block: Fix a memory leak 'erased_blocks_bitmap' is never freed. As it is allocated at the same time as 'used_blocks_bitmap', it is likely that it should be freed also at the same time. Add the corresponding bitmap_free() in msb_data_clear().
CVE-2022-50139 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/qedr: Fix potential memory leak in __qedr_alloc_mr() __qedr_alloc_mr() allocates a memory chunk for "mr->info.pbl_table" with init_mr_info(). When rdma_alloc_tid() and rdma_register_tid() fail, "mr" is released while "mr->info.pbl_table" is not released, which will lead to a memory leak. We should release the "mr->info.pbl_table" with qedr_free_pbl() when error occurs to fix the memory leak.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's RDMA/irdma driver that allows a local privileged attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability occurs during CQ (Completion Queue) destruction when an interrupt may trigger processing of a CQE (Completion Queue Entry) after the CQ resources have already been freed, creating a race condition window. This affects Linux kernel versions with the vulnerable irdma driver code path, with no evidence of active KEV exploitation or widespread POC availability at the time of disclosure.
CVE-2022-50136 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/hfi1: fix potential memory leak in setup_base_ctxt() setup_base_ctxt() allocates a memory chunk for uctxt->groups with hfi1_alloc_ctxt_rcv_groups(). When init_user_ctxt() fails, uctxt->groups is not released, which will lead to a memory leak. We should release the uctxt->groups with hfi1_free_ctxt_rcv_groups() when init_user_ctxt() fails.
CVE-2022-50130 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50129 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 7.8). High severity vulnerability requiring prompt remediation. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Fix error unwind in rxe_create_qp() In the function rxe_create_qp(), rxe_qp_from_init() is called to initialize qp, internally things like the spin locks are not setup until rxe_qp_init_req(). If an error occures before this point then the unwind will call rxe_cleanup() and eventually to rxe_qp_do_cleanup()/rxe_cleanup_task() which will oops when trying to access the uninitialized spinlock. Move the spinlock initializations earlier before any failures.
CVE-2022-50125 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50124 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50123 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50122 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50121 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50120 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50119 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50117 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: n_gsm: fix deadlock and link starvation in outgoing data path The current implementation queues up new control and user packets as needed and processes this queue down to the ldisc in the same code path. That means that the upper and the lower layer are hard coupled in the code. Due to this deadlocks can happen as seen below while transmitting data, especially during ldisc congestion. Furthermore, the data channels starve the control channel on high transmission load on the ldisc. Introduce an additional control channel data queue to prevent timeouts and link hangups during ldisc congestion. This is being processed before the user channel data queue in gsm_data_kick(), i.e. with the highest priority. Put the queue to ldisc data path into a workqueue and trigger it whenever new data has been put into the transmission queue. Change gsm_dlci_data_sweep() accordingly to fill up the transmission queue until TX_THRESH_HI. This solves the locking issue, keeps latency low and provides good performance on high data load. Note that now all packets from a DLCI are removed from the internal queue if the associated DLCI was closed. This ensures that no data is sent by the introduced write task to an already closed DLCI. BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, test_v24_loop/124 lock: serial8250_ports+0x3a8/0x7500, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: test_v24_loop/124, .owner_cpu: 0 CPU: 0 PID: 124 Comm: test_v24_loop Tainted: G O 5.18.0-rc2 #3 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <IRQ> dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44 do_raw_spin_lock+0x76/0xa0 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x72/0x80 uart_write_room+0x3b/0xc0 gsm_data_kick+0x14b/0x240 [n_gsm] gsmld_write_wakeup+0x35/0x70 [n_gsm] tty_wakeup+0x53/0x60 tty_port_default_wakeup+0x1b/0x30 serial8250_tx_chars+0x12f/0x220 serial8250_handle_irq.part.0+0xfe/0x150 serial8250_default_handle_irq+0x48/0x80 serial8250_interrupt+0x56/0xa0 __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x78/0x1f0 handle_irq_event+0x34/0x70 handle_fasteoi_irq+0x90/0x1e0 __common_interrupt+0x69/0x100 common_interrupt+0x48/0xc0 asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40 RIP: 0010:__do_softirq+0x83/0x34e Code: 2a 0a ff 0f b7 ed c7 44 24 10 0a 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 51 2a 64 82 e8 2d e2 d5 ff 65 66 c7 05 83 af 1e 7e 00 00 fb b8 ff ff ff ff <49> c7 c2 40 61 80 82 0f bc c5 41 89 c4 41 83 c4 01 0f 84 e6 00 00 RSP: 0018:ffffc90000003f98 EFLAGS: 00000286 RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff82642a51 RDI: ffffffff825bb5e7 RBP: 0000000000000200 R08: 00000008de3271a8 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000030 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 ? __do_softirq+0x73/0x34e irq_exit_rcu+0xb5/0x100 common_interrupt+0xa4/0xc0 </IRQ> <TASK> asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40 RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2e/0x50 Code: 00 55 48 89 fd 48 83 c7 18 53 48 89 f3 48 8b 74 24 10 e8 85 28 36 ff 48 89 ef e8 cd 58 36 ff 80 e7 02 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> 3d 97 33 ff 65 8b 05 96 23 2b 7e 85 c0 74 03 5b 5d c3 0f 1f 44 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000020fd08 EFLAGS: 00000202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: ffffffff8257fd74 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: ffff8880057de3a0 R08: 00000008de233000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000100 R14: 0000000000000202 R15: ffff8880057df0b8 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x23/0x50 gsmtty_write+0x65/0x80 [n_gsm] n_tty_write+0x33f/0x530 ? swake_up_all+0xe0/0xe0 file_tty_write.constprop.0+0x1b1/0x320 ? n_tty_flush_buffer+0xb0/0xb0 new_sync_write+0x10c/0x190 vfs_write+0x282/0x310 ksys_write+0x68/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f3e5e35c15c Code: 8b 7c 24 08 89 c5 e8 c5 ff ff ff 89 ef 89 44 24 ---truncated---
CVE-2022-50114 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50113 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50112 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50111 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: watchdog: sp5100_tco: Fix a memory leak of EFCH MMIO resource Unlike release_mem_region(), a call to release_resource() does not free the resource, so it has to be freed explicitly to avoid a memory leak.
CVE-2022-50109 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50108 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix memory leak when using fscache If we hit the 'index == next_cached' case, we leak a refcount on the struct page. Fix this by using readahead_folio() which takes care of the refcount for you.
CVE-2022-50106 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50105 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50104 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: video: fbdev: arkfb: Fix a divide-by-zero bug in ark_set_pixclock() Since the user can control the arguments of the ioctl() from the user space, under special arguments that may result in a divide-by-zero bug in: drivers/video/fbdev/arkfb.c:784: ark_set_pixclock(info, (hdiv * info->var.pixclock) / hmul); with hdiv=1, pixclock=1 and hmul=2 you end up with (1*1)/2 = (int) 0. and then in: drivers/video/fbdev/arkfb.c:504: rv = dac_set_freq(par->dac, 0, 1000000000 / pixclock); we'll get a division-by-zero. The following log can reveal it: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI RIP: 0010:ark_set_pixclock drivers/video/fbdev/arkfb.c:504 [inline] RIP: 0010:arkfb_set_par+0x10fc/0x24c0 drivers/video/fbdev/arkfb.c:784 Call Trace: fb_set_var+0x604/0xeb0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1034 do_fb_ioctl+0x234/0x670 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1110 fb_ioctl+0xdd/0x130 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1189 Fix this by checking the argument of ark_set_pixclock() first.
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel's vt8623fb framebuffer driver where improper validation of user-supplied screen size parameters allows writing beyond allocated memory boundaries via memset_io(). A local attacker with unprivileged user access can trigger a heap overflow through the FB_SET_VAR ioctl, potentially achieving arbitrary kernel code execution or denial of service. The vulnerability affects the framebuffer subsystem across multiple Linux distributions and requires local access to exploit, making it a moderate-to-high severity issue for multi-user systems.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/core: Do not requeue task on CPU excluded from cpus_mask The following warning was triggered on a large machine early in boot on a distribution kernel but the same problem should also affect mainline. WARNING: CPU: 439 PID: 10 at ../kernel/workqueue.c:2231 process_one_work+0x4d/0x440 Call Trace: <TASK> rescuer_thread+0x1f6/0x360 kthread+0x156/0x180 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 </TASK> Commit c6e7bd7afaeb ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu") optimises ttwu by queueing a task that is descheduling on the wakelist, but does not check if the task descheduling is still allowed to run on that CPU. In this warning, the problematic task is a workqueue rescue thread which checks if the rescue is for a per-cpu workqueue and running on the wrong CPU. While this is early in boot and it should be possible to create workers, the rescue thread may still used if the MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is reached or MAYDAY_INTERVAL and on a sufficiently large machine, the rescue thread is being used frequently. Tracing confirmed that the task should have migrated properly using the stopper thread to handle the migration. However, a parallel wakeup from udev running on another CPU that does not share CPU cache observes p->on_cpu and uses task_cpu(p), queues the task on the old CPU and triggers the warning. Check that the wakee task that is descheduling is still allowed to run on its current CPU and if not, wait for the descheduling to complete and select an allowed CPU.
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel's arkfb (Ark Logic framebuffer) driver where improper validation of user-supplied screen size parameters in arkfb_set_par() allows local attackers with user-level privileges to write beyond allocated memory boundaries via memset_io(), potentially achieving code execution or denial of service. The vulnerability affects Linux kernel versions with vulnerable arkfb driver code and requires local access; no evidence of active exploitation in the wild or public POC availability was identified at analysis time.
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel's s3fb framebuffer driver where improper input validation in the s3fb_set_par() function allows a local attacker with low privileges to write beyond allocated memory boundaries via memset_io(), potentially causing kernel panic or code execution. The vulnerability affects Linux kernel versions with the vulnerable s3fb driver and requires local access with user-level privileges to exploit.
CVE-2022-50096 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50095 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 7.8). High severity vulnerability requiring prompt remediation. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/reclaim: fix potential memory leak in damon_reclaim_init() damon_reclaim_init() allocates a memory chunk for ctx with damon_new_ctx(). When damon_select_ops() fails, ctx is not released, which will lead to a memory leak. We should release the ctx with damon_destroy_ctx() when damon_select_ops() fails to fix the memory leak.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ARM SCPI (System Control and Power Interface) firmware driver that occurs when probe initialization fails. An attacker with local privilege (unprivileged user) can trigger the probe failure path, leaving a dangling pointer in scpi_info that remains accessible via get_scpi_ops(), potentially allowing memory corruption, information disclosure, or code execution. This vulnerability affects the arm_scpi driver across multiple Linux kernel versions and has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High). KEV and active exploitation status are not definitively indicated in available public sources, but the flaw is a classic use-after-free with moderate exploitability.
CVE-2022-50079 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Linux kernel's AMD display driver (amd/display) affecting DCN303 hardware. The vulnerability occurs due to insufficient bounds checking on stream encoder instance IDs, which can only be 0 or 1 on DCN303 but may be accessed beyond these limits, potentially exposing kernel memory or causing a denial of service. This vulnerability requires local access and low privileges to exploit; it is not known to be actively exploited in the wild, but the CVSS 7.1 score reflects the combination of high confidentiality impact and high availability impact.
CVE-2022-50077 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix memory leak on the deferred close xfstests on smb21 report kmemleak as below: unreferenced object 0xffff8881767d6200 (size 64): comm "xfs_io", pid 1284, jiffies 4294777434 (age 20.789s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 80 5a d0 11 81 88 ff ff 78 8a aa 63 81 88 ff ff .Z......x..c.... 00 71 99 76 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .q.v............ backtrace: [<00000000ad04e6ea>] cifs_close+0x92/0x2c0 [<0000000028b93c82>] __fput+0xff/0x3f0 [<00000000d8116851>] task_work_run+0x85/0xc0 [<0000000027e14f9e>] do_exit+0x5e5/0x1240 [<00000000fb492b95>] do_group_exit+0x58/0xe0 [<00000000129a32d9>] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x28/0x30 [<00000000e3f7d8e9>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<00000000102e8a0b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 When cancel the deferred close work, we should also cleanup the struct cifs_deferred_close.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: Fix memleak in aa_simple_write_to_buffer() When copy_from_user failed, the memory is freed by kvfree. however the management struct and data blob are allocated independently, so only kvfree(data) cause a memleak issue here. Use aa_put_loaddata(data) to fix this issue.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's NFSv4/pNFS implementation that occurs when an open RPC call is cancelled, potentially allowing a local attacker with low privileges to cause denial of service or potentially achieve code execution through memory corruption. The vulnerability affects Linux kernel versions prior to the fix implementation and impacts systems using NFSv4 protocol with pNFS (parallel NFS) layouts. While the CVSS score of 7.8 indicates high severity with local attack vector, real-world exploitation requires specific conditions (active RPC cancellation during NFSv4 open operations) and local access.
Race condition in the Linux kernel's MPTCP (Multipath TCP) implementation where the packet scheduler can attempt to transmit data on subflows that have already been closed, occurring when mptcp-level retransmission races with mptcp_close(). This vulnerability affects Linux kernel versions through 5.19.x and allows a local authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service (kernel crash/memory corruption) with high integrity impact. No active KEV status or public PoC is documented, but the CVSS score of 7.8 reflects local privilege escalation risk.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio_net: fix memory leak inside XPD_TX with mergeable When we call xdp_convert_buff_to_frame() to get xdpf, if it returns NULL, we should check if xdp_page was allocated by xdp_linearize_page(). If it is newly allocated, it should be freed here alone. Just like any other "goto err_xdp".
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bgmac: Fix a BUG triggered by wrong bytes_compl On one of our machines we got: kernel BUG at lib/dynamic_queue_limits.c:27! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM CPU: 0 PID: 1166 Comm: irq/41-bgmac Tainted: G W O 4.14.275-rt132 #1 Hardware name: BRCM XGS iProc task: ee3415c0 task.stack: ee32a000 PC is at dql_completed+0x168/0x178 LR is at bgmac_poll+0x18c/0x6d8 pc : [<c03b9430>] lr : [<c04b5a18>] psr: 800a0313 sp : ee32be14 ip : 000005ea fp : 00000bd4 r10: ee558500 r9 : c0116298 r8 : 00000002 r7 : 00000000 r6 : ef128810 r5 : 01993267 r4 : 01993851 r3 : ee558000 r2 : 000070e1 r1 : 00000bd4 r0 : ee52c180 Flags: Nzcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none Control: 12c5387d Table: 8e88c04a DAC: 00000051 Process irq/41-bgmac (pid: 1166, stack limit = 0xee32a210) Stack: (0xee32be14 to 0xee32c000) be00: ee558520 ee52c100 ef128810 be20: 00000000 00000002 c0116298 c04b5a18 00000000 c0a0c8c4 c0951780 00000040 be40: c0701780 ee558500 ee55d520 ef05b340 ef6f9780 ee558520 00000001 00000040 be60: ffffe000 c0a56878 ef6fa040 c0952040 0000012c c0528744 ef6f97b0 fffcfb6a be80: c0a04104 2eda8000 c0a0c4ec c0a0d368 ee32bf44 c0153534 ee32be98 ee32be98 bea0: ee32bea0 ee32bea0 ee32bea8 ee32bea8 00000000 c01462e4 ffffe000 ef6f22a8 bec0: ffffe000 00000008 ee32bee4 c0147430 ffffe000 c094a2a8 00000003 ffffe000 bee0: c0a54528 00208040 0000000c c0a0c8c4 c0a65980 c0124d3c 00000008 ee558520 bf00: c094a23c c0a02080 00000000 c07a9910 ef136970 ef136970 ee30a440 ef136900 bf20: ee30a440 00000001 ef136900 ee30a440 c016d990 00000000 c0108db0 c012500c bf40: ef136900 c016da14 ee30a464 ffffe000 00000001 c016dd14 00000000 c016db28 bf60: ffffe000 ee21a080 ee30a400 00000000 ee32a000 ee30a440 c016dbfc ee25fd70 bf80: ee21a09c c013edcc ee32a000 ee30a400 c013ec7c 00000000 00000000 00000000 bfa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 c0108470 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 bfc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 bfe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 00000000 00000000 [<c03b9430>] (dql_completed) from [<c04b5a18>] (bgmac_poll+0x18c/0x6d8) [<c04b5a18>] (bgmac_poll) from [<c0528744>] (net_rx_action+0x1c4/0x494) [<c0528744>] (net_rx_action) from [<c0124d3c>] (do_current_softirqs+0x1ec/0x43c) [<c0124d3c>] (do_current_softirqs) from [<c012500c>] (__local_bh_enable+0x80/0x98) [<c012500c>] (__local_bh_enable) from [<c016da14>] (irq_forced_thread_fn+0x84/0x98) [<c016da14>] (irq_forced_thread_fn) from [<c016dd14>] (irq_thread+0x118/0x1c0) [<c016dd14>] (irq_thread) from [<c013edcc>] (kthread+0x150/0x158) [<c013edcc>] (kthread) from [<c0108470>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24) Code: a83f15e0 0200001a 0630a0e1 c3ffffea (f201f0e7) The issue seems similar to commit 90b3b339364c ("net: hisilicon: Fix a BUG trigered by wrong bytes_compl") and potentially introduced by commit b38c83dd0866 ("bgmac: simplify tx ring index handling"). If there is an RX interrupt between setting ring->end and netdev_sent_queue() we can hit the BUG_ON as bgmac_dma_tx_free() can miscalculate the queue size while called from bgmac_poll(). The machine which triggered the BUG runs a v4.14 RT kernel - but the issue seems present in mainline too.
CVE-2022-50061 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-af: Fix mcam entry resource leak The teardown sequence in FLR handler returns if no NIX LF is attached to PF/VF because it indicates that graceful shutdown of resources already happened. But there is a chance of all allocated MCAM entries not being freed by PF/VF. Hence free mcam entries even in case of detached LF.
CVE-2022-50059 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50055 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iavf: Fix reset error handling Do not call iavf_close in iavf_reset_task error handling. Doing so can lead to double call of napi_disable, which can lead to deadlock there. Removing VF would lead to iavf_remove task being stuck, because it requires crit_lock, which is held by iavf_close. Call iavf_disable_vf if reset fail, so that driver will clean up remaining invalid resources. During rapid VF resets, HW can fail to setup VF mailbox. Wrong error handling can lead to iavf_remove being stuck with: [ 5218.999087] iavf 0000:82:01.0: Failed to init adminq: -53 ... [ 5267.189211] INFO: task repro.sh:11219 blocked for more than 30 seconds. [ 5267.189520] Tainted: G S E 5.18.0-04958-ga54ce3703613-dirty #1 [ 5267.189764] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 5267.190062] task:repro.sh state:D stack: 0 pid:11219 ppid: 8162 flags:0x00000000 [ 5267.190347] Call Trace: [ 5267.190647] <TASK> [ 5267.190927] __schedule+0x460/0x9f0 [ 5267.191264] schedule+0x44/0xb0 [ 5267.191563] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x14/0x20 [ 5267.191890] __mutex_lock.isra.12+0x6e3/0xac0 [ 5267.192237] ? iavf_remove+0xf9/0x6c0 [iavf] [ 5267.192565] iavf_remove+0x12a/0x6c0 [iavf] [ 5267.192911] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x1e/0x40 [ 5267.193285] pci_device_remove+0x36/0xb0 [ 5267.193619] device_release_driver_internal+0xc1/0x150 [ 5267.193974] pci_stop_bus_device+0x69/0x90 [ 5267.194361] pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0xe/0x20 [ 5267.194735] pci_iov_remove_virtfn+0xba/0x120 [ 5267.195130] sriov_disable+0x2f/0xe0 [ 5267.195506] ice_free_vfs+0x7d/0x2f0 [ice] [ 5267.196056] ? pci_get_device+0x4f/0x70 [ 5267.196496] ice_sriov_configure+0x78/0x1a0 [ice] [ 5267.196995] sriov_numvfs_store+0xfe/0x140 [ 5267.197466] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12e/0x1c0 [ 5267.197918] new_sync_write+0x10c/0x190 [ 5267.198404] vfs_write+0x24e/0x2d0 [ 5267.198886] ksys_write+0x5c/0xd0 [ 5267.199367] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80 [ 5267.199827] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 [ 5267.200317] RIP: 0033:0x7f5b381205c8 [ 5267.200814] RSP: 002b:00007fff8c7e8c78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 [ 5267.201981] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 00007f5b381205c8 [ 5267.202620] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00005569420ee900 RDI: 0000000000000001 [ 5267.203426] RBP: 00005569420ee900 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 00007f5b38180820 [ 5267.204327] R10: 000000000000000a R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f5b383c06e0 [ 5267.205193] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 00007f5b383bb880 R15: 0000000000000002 [ 5267.206041] </TASK> [ 5267.206970] Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks [ 5267.207809] CPU: 48 PID: 551 Comm: khungtaskd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S E 5.18.0-04958-ga54ce3703613-dirty #1 [ 5267.208726] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/0WCJNT, BIOS 2.11.0 11/02/2019 [ 5267.209623] Call Trace: [ 5267.210569] <TASK> [ 5267.211480] dump_stack_lvl+0x33/0x42 [ 5267.212472] panic+0x107/0x294 [ 5267.213467] watchdog.cold.8+0xc/0xbb [ 5267.214413] ? proc_dohung_task_timeout_secs+0x30/0x30 [ 5267.215511] kthread+0xf4/0x120 [ 5267.216459] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 [ 5267.217505] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 [ 5267.218459] </TASK>
CVE-2022-50048 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sunrpc: fix potential memory leaks in rpc_sysfs_xprt_state_change() The issue happens on some error handling paths. When the function fails to grab the object `xprt`, it simply returns 0, forgetting to decrease the reference count of another object `xps`, which is increased by rpc_sysfs_xprt_kobj_get_xprt_switch(), causing refcount leaks. Also, the function forgets to check whether `xps` is valid before using it, which may result in NULL-dereferencing issues. Fix it by adding proper error handling code when either `xprt` or `xps` is NULL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pci: Fix get_phb_number() locking The recent change to get_phb_number() causes a DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP warning on some systems: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:580 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 1 lock held by swapper/1: #0: c157efb0 (hose_spinlock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: pcibios_alloc_controller+0x64/0x220 Preemption disabled at: [<00000000>] 0x0 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.19.0-yocto-standard+ #1 Call Trace: [d101dc90] [c073b264] dump_stack_lvl+0x50/0x8c (unreliable) [d101dcb0] [c0093b70] __might_resched+0x258/0x2a8 [d101dcd0] [c0d3e634] __mutex_lock+0x6c/0x6ec [d101dd50] [c0a84174] of_alias_get_id+0x50/0xf4 [d101dd80] [c002ec78] pcibios_alloc_controller+0x1b8/0x220 [d101ddd0] [c140c9dc] pmac_pci_init+0x198/0x784 [d101de50] [c140852c] discover_phbs+0x30/0x4c [d101de60] [c0007fd4] do_one_initcall+0x94/0x344 [d101ded0] [c1403b40] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a8/0x22c [d101df10] [c00086e0] kernel_init+0x34/0x160 [d101df30] [c001b334] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 This is because pcibios_alloc_controller() holds hose_spinlock but of_alias_get_id() takes of_mutex which can sleep. The hose_spinlock protects the phb_bitmap, and also the hose_list, but it doesn't need to be held while get_phb_number() calls the OF routines, because those are only looking up information in the device tree. So fix it by having get_phb_number() take the hose_spinlock itself, only where required, and then dropping the lock before returning. pcibios_alloc_controller() then needs to take the lock again before the list_add() but that's safe, the order of the list is not important.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: qrtr: start MHI channel after endpoit creation MHI channel may generates event/interrupt right after enabling. It may leads to 2 race conditions issues. 1) Such event may be dropped by qcom_mhi_qrtr_dl_callback() at check: if (!qdev || mhi_res->transaction_status) return; Because dev_set_drvdata(&mhi_dev->dev, qdev) may be not performed at this moment. In this situation qrtr-ns will be unable to enumerate services in device. --------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Such event may come at the moment after dev_set_drvdata() and before qrtr_endpoint_register(). In this case kernel will panic with accessing wrong pointer at qcom_mhi_qrtr_dl_callback(): rc = qrtr_endpoint_post(&qdev->ep, mhi_res->buf_addr, mhi_res->bytes_xferd); Because endpoint is not created yet. -------------------------------------------------------------- So move mhi_prepare_for_transfer_autoqueue after endpoint creation to fix it.
CVE-2022-50043 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: genl: fix error path memory leak in policy dumping If construction of the array of policies fails when recording non-first policy we need to unwind. netlink_policy_dump_add_policy() itself also needs fixing as it currently gives up on error without recording the allocated pointer in the pstate pointer.
CVE-2022-50039 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50038 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50037 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/sun4i: dsi: Prevent underflow when computing packet sizes Currently, the packet overhead is subtracted using unsigned arithmetic. With a short sync pulse, this could underflow and wrap around to near the maximal u16 value. Fix this by using signed subtraction. The call to max() will correctly handle any negative numbers that are produced. Apply the same fix to the other timings, even though those subtractions are less likely to underflow.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's AMD GPU (amdgpu) driver that occurs when amdgpu_cs_vm_handling returns an error, causing the bo_list_mutex to be unlocked twice-once inside the function and again in amdgpu_cs_parser_fini. This leads to refcount underflow and potential memory corruption. The vulnerability affects unprivileged local users on systems with AMD GPUs and Linux kernel versions around 5.20, allowing denial of service and potential privilege escalation through memory corruption exploitation.
CVE-2022-50033 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50032 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
A remote code execution vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50028 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Fix possible memory leak when failing to issue CMF WQE There is no corresponding free routine if lpfc_sli4_issue_wqe fails to issue the CMF WQE in lpfc_issue_cmf_sync_wqe. If ret_val is non-zero, then free the iocbq request structure.
CVE-2022-50026 is an out-of-bounds shift vulnerability in the Linux kernel's habanalabs/gaudi driver that occurs when validating NIC queues due to improper offset calculation logic. The vulnerability affects Linux kernel versions with the habanalabs Gaudi accelerator driver and requires local access with limited privileges to exploit. An authenticated local attacker can trigger an out-of-bounds memory access leading to information disclosure (confidentiality impact) and potential denial of service (availability impact), with a CVSS score of 7.1 indicating high severity.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl: Fix a memory leak in an error handling path A bitmap_zalloc() must be balanced by a corresponding bitmap_free() in the error handling path of afu_allocate_irqs().
CVE-2022-50023 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's RAID5 MD driver where the function raid5_release_stripe() prematurely releases a stripe handle (sh) reference, but the code continues to dereference sh in subsequent conditional statements. This affects local attackers with unprivileged user privileges who can trigger the vulnerability through direct kernel interactions, potentially leading to denial of service, information disclosure, or local privilege escalation. The vulnerability is not currently listed as actively exploited (KEV status unknown from provided data), but the high CVSS score (7.8) and straightforward local attack vector indicate moderate real-world risk requiring prioritization for systems with untrusted local users.
CVE-2022-50020 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50019 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.
CVE-2022-50017 is a security vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.