CVE-2022-48768

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.4.176 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing/histogram: Fix a potential memory leak for kstrdup() kfree() is missing on an error path to free the memory allocated by kstrdup(): p = param = kstrdup(data->params[i], GFP_KERNEL); So it is better to free it via kfree(p).

References (5)

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a8878ebb596281f50fc0b9a6e1f23f0d7f154e8

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d71b06aa995007eafd247626d0669b9364c42ad7

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df86e2fe808c3536a9dba353cc2bebdfea00d0cf

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e33fa4a46ee22de88a700e2e3d033da8214a5175

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e629e7b525a179e29d53463d992bdee759c950fb

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 9.8%

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 (6)

linux/linux_kernel < 5.4.176

linux/linux_kernel

linux/Kernel < 5.4.176linux

linux/Kernel < 5.10.96linux

linux/Kernel < 5.15.19linux

linux/Kernel < 5.16.5linux

Timeline

Published Jun 20, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026