CVE-2022-50170

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.18 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kunit: executor: Fix a memory leak on failure in kunit_filter_tests It's possible that memory allocation for 'filtered' will fail, but for the copy of the suite to succeed. In this case, the copy could be leaked. Properly free 'copy' in the error case for the allocation of 'filtered' failing. Note that there may also have been a similar issue in kunit_filter_subsuites, before it was removed in "kunit: flatten kunit_suite*** to kunit_suite** in .kunit_test_suites". This was reported by clang-analyzer via the kernel test robot, here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ And by smatch via Dan Carpenter and the kernel test robot: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 3.7%
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 (1)

linux/linux_kernel < 5.18

Timeline

Published Jun 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026