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ghsa-hhpm-97gw-pcv3

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Published

2025-06-18 12:30

Modified

2025-06-18 12:30

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

selinux: fix memleak in security_read_state_kernel()

In this function, it directly returns the result of __security_read_policy without freeing the allocated memory in *data, cause memory leak issue, so free the memory if __security_read_policy failed.

[PM: subject line tweak]

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CVE-2022-50201 (GCVE-0-2022-50201)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-06-18 11:03

Modified

2025-09-03 12:59

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux: fix memleak in security_read_state_kernel() In this function, it directly returns the result of __security_read_policy without freeing the allocated memory in *data, cause memory leak issue, so free the memory if __security_read_policy failed. [PM: subject line tweak]

References

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c877c5217145bda8fd95f506bf42f8d981afa57d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3cd7562c0a6774fc62d79654482014020e574f5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fc1f72aad2070d34022d0823e4cf09706b53f25
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73de1befcc53a7c68b0c5e76b9b5ac41c517760f

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Vendor

Product

Version

Version: fdd1ffe8a812b1109388e4bc389e57b2695ad095
Version: fdd1ffe8a812b1109388e4bc389e57b2695ad095
Version: fdd1ffe8a812b1109388e4bc389e57b2695ad095
Version: fdd1ffe8a812b1109388e4bc389e57b2695ad095

Version: 5.12

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