CVE-2022-49795

Updated on 01 May 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

rethook: fix a potential memleak in rethook_alloc()

In rethook_alloc(), the variable rh is not freed or passed out if handler is NULL, which could lead to a memleak, fix it.

[Masami: Add “rethook:” tag to the title.]

Acke-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) [email protected]

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+1 more)

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

rethook: fix a potential memleak in rethook_alloc()

In rethook_alloc(), the variable rh is not freed or passed out if handler is NULL, which could lead to a memleak, fix it.

[Masami: Add “rethook:” tag to the title.]

Acke-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) [email protected]

Fixes