Tracker / CVE-2022-50391
CVE-2022-50391
Medium 5.5
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mempolicy: fix memory leak in set_mempolicy_home_node system call When encountering any vma in the range with policy other than MPOL_BIND or MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY, an error is returned without issuing a mpol_put on the policy just allocated with mpol_dup(). This allows arbitrary users to leak kernel memory.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.17 → 6.0.17 |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.1 → 6.1.3 |
Analysis
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