CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-50074

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-06-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-06-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: Fix memleak in aa_simple_write_to_buffer() When copy_from_user failed, the memory is freed by kvfree. however the management struct and data blob are allocated independently, so only kvfree(data) cause a memleak issue here. Use aa_put_loaddata(data) to fix this issue.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.17 < 4.19.256) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.211) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.138) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.63) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.19.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References