CVE-2022-49144 (GCVE-0-2022-49144)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-26 01:55
Modified
2025-10-01 19:57
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: fix memory leak of uid in files registration When there are no files for __io_sqe_files_scm() to process in the range, it'll free everything and return. However, it forgets to put uid.
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Linux Linux Version: 08a451739a9b5783f67de51e84cb6d9559bb9dc4
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