CVE-2022-49890

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> capabilities: fix potential memleak on error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc()<br /> <br /> In cap_inode_getsecurity(), we will use vfs_getxattr_alloc() to<br /> complete the memory allocation of tmpbuf, if we have completed<br /> the memory allocation of tmpbuf, but failed to call handler-&gt;get(...),<br /> there will be a memleak in below logic:<br /> <br /> |-- ret = (int)vfs_getxattr_alloc(mnt_userns, ...)<br /> | /* ^^^ alloc for tmpbuf */<br /> |-- value = krealloc(*xattr_value, error + 1, flags)<br /> | /* ^^^ alloc memory */<br /> |-- error = handler-&gt;get(handler, ...)<br /> | /* error! */<br /> |-- *xattr_value = value<br /> | /* xattr_value is &amp;tmpbuf (memory leak!) */<br /> <br /> So we will try to free(tmpbuf) after vfs_getxattr_alloc() fails to fix it.<br /> <br /> [PM: subject line and backtrace tweaks]