github - ghsa-m9c8-445c-mwfr

ghsa-m9c8-445c-mwfr

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-09-18 15:30

Modified

2025-09-18 15:30

Details

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

mm/mempolicy: fix memory leak in set_mempolicy_home_node system call

When encountering any vma in the range with policy other than MPOL_BIND or MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY, an error is returned without issuing a mpol_put on the policy just allocated with mpol_dup().

This allows arbitrary users to leak kernel memory.

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CVE-2022-50391 (GCVE-0-2022-50391)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-09-18 13:33

Modified

2025-09-18 13:33

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mempolicy: fix memory leak in set_mempolicy_home_node system call When encountering any vma in the range with policy other than MPOL_BIND or MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY, an error is returned without issuing a mpol_put on the policy just allocated with mpol_dup(). This allows arbitrary users to leak kernel memory.

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ca0eb6b2f3add8c5daefb726ce57dc95d103d33
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ce4cc6d269ddc448a825955b495f662f5d9e153
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38ce7c9bdfc228c14d7621ba36d3eebedd9d4f76

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Version: c6018b4b254971863bd0ad36bb5e7d0fa0f0ddb0
Version: c6018b4b254971863bd0ad36bb5e7d0fa0f0ddb0
Version: c6018b4b254971863bd0ad36bb5e7d0fa0f0ddb0

Version: 5.17

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