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CVE-2022-50042

Medium 5.5

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 5.10 → 5.10.138
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.63
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.19.4

Analysis

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