CVE-2022-50577 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 93.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 22
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash()
Commit f3cc6b25dcc5 ("ima: always measure and audit files in policy") lets
measurement or audit happen even if the file digest cannot be calculated.
As a result, iint->ima_hash could have been allocated despite
ima_collect_measurement() returning an error.
Since ima_hash belongs to a temporary inode metadata structure, declared
at the beginning of __ima_inode_hash(), just add a kfre…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux280fe8367b0dc45b6ac5e04fad03e16e99540c0c — c4df8cb38f139ed9f4296868c0a6f15a26e8c491+3
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2022-50577: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash() Commit f3cc6b25dcc5 ("ima: always measu↗2025-10-22
GHSA▶
GHSA-6fv2-p7hp-vxq5: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash()
Commit f3cc6b25dcc5 ("ima: always mea↗2025-10-22