CVE-2022-50042

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: genl: fix error path memory leak in policy dumping If construction of the array of policies fails when recording non-first policy we need to unwind. netlink_policy_dump_add_policy() itself also needs fixing as it currently gives up on error without recording the allocated pointer in the pstate pointer.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0672895d8be5d19d4b05ac83f807026fc791037

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83411c9f05d5a8b637293b3389eca3d378197c04

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26b6acd365823e99e46be3b27500f5dc235dda5e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/249801360db3dec4f73768c502192020bfddeacc

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-06-18

Updated: 2025-06-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018