CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50201
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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:
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]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.12 < 5.15.61)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.18.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 5.19.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fc1f72aad2070d34022d0823e4cf09706b53f25 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73de1befcc53a7c68b0c5e76b9b5ac41c517760f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c877c5217145bda8fd95f506bf42f8d981afa57d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3cd7562c0a6774fc62d79654482014020e574f5 Patch