CVE-2022-50577

medium

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 kfree() call if ima_collect_measurement() returns an error different from -ENOMEM (in that case, ima_hash should not have been allocated).

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f375bcf69f58fd0744c9dfd1b6b891a27301d67b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4df8cb38f139ed9f4296868c0a6f15a26e8c491

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c1d6a050a0f16e0a9d32eaf53b965c77279c6f8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-22

Updated: 2025-10-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.8

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017