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CVE-2022-48768

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
20/06/2024
Last modified:
09/09/2024

Description

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

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.4.19 (including) 5.4.176 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.6 (including) 5.10.96 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.11 (including) 5.15.19 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.16 (including) 5.16.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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