CVE-2022-48669

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 6.1.83 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries: Fix potential memleak in papr_get_attr() `buf` is allocated in papr_get_attr(), and krealloc() of `buf` could fail. We need to free the original `buf` in the case of failure.

References (5)

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1699fb915b9f61794d559b55114c09a390aaf234

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f7d39fe3d80d6143404940b2413010cf6527029

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3f22feb2220a945d1c3282e34199e8bcdc5afc4

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cda9c0d556283e2d4adaa9960b2dc19b16156bae

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0647c3e81eff62b66d46fd4e475318cb8cb3610

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0001

EPSS Percentile 0.9%

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 (5)

linux/linux_kernel < 6.1.83

linux/Kernel < 6.1.83linux

linux/Kernel < 6.6.23linux

linux/Kernel < 6.7.11linux

linux/Kernel < 6.8.2linux

Timeline

Published May 01, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026