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CVE-2022-50007

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: fix refcount leak in __xfrm_policy_check() The issue happens on an error path in __xfrm_policy_check(). When the fetching process of the object `pols[1]` fails, the function simply returns 0, forgetting to decrement the reference count of `pols[0]`, which is incremented earlier by either xfrm_sk_policy_lookup() or xfrm_policy_lookup(). This may result in memory leaks. Fix it by decreasing the reference count of `pols[0]` in that path.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.20 → 4.9.327
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.292
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.257
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.212
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.64
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.19.6
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.140

Analysis

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