CVE-2022-49795 (GCVE-0-2022-49795)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-01 14:09
Modified
2025-05-04 08:45
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rethook: fix a potential memleak in rethook_alloc() In rethook_alloc(), the variable rh is not freed or passed out if handler is NULL, which could lead to a memleak, fix it. [Masami: Add "rethook:" tag to the title.] Acke-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a1ebe35cb3b7aa1f4b26b37e2a0b9ae68dc4ffb
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbc5d1f9a8cc40ba2bc6779b36d2ea1f65bc027c
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Linux Linux Version: 54ecbe6f1ed5138c895bdff55608cf502755b20e
Version: 54ecbe6f1ed5138c895bdff55608cf502755b20e
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