CVE-2022-48642
kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: fix percpu memory leak at nf_tables_addchain()
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · April 28, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: fix percpu memory leak at nf_tables_addchain()
It seems to me that percpu memory for chain stats started leaking since commit 3bc158f8d0330f0a ("netfilter: nf_tables: map basechain priority to hardware priority") when nft_chain_offload_priority() returned an error.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption