CVE-2022-48641

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.14.295 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ebtables: fix memory leak when blob is malformed The bug fix was incomplete, it "replaced" crash with a memory leak. The old code had an assignment to "ret" embedded into the conditional, restore this.

References (7)

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11ebf32fde46572b0aaf3c2bdd97d923ef5a03ab

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e98318af2f163eadaff815abcef38d27ca92c1e

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38cf372b17f0a5f35c1b716a100532d539f0eb33

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62ce44c4fff947eebdf10bb582267e686e6835c9

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/754e8b74281dd54a324698803483f47cf3355ae1

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5917b7af7cae0e2804f9d127a03268035098b7f

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebd97dbe3c55d68346b9c5fb00634a7f5b10bbee

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0001

EPSS Percentile 2.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-401

Status published

Affected Products (7)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.14.295

linux/Kernel < 4.14.295linux

linux/Kernel < 4.19.260linux

linux/Kernel < 5.4.215linux

linux/Kernel < 5.10.146linux

linux/Kernel < 5.15.71linux

linux/Kernel < 5.19.12linux

Timeline

Published Apr 28, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026