Riskcovery

CVE-2022-49795

rethook: fix a potential memleak in rethook_alloc()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 1, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rethook: fix a potential memleak in rethook_alloc()

In rethook_alloc(), the variable rh is not freed or passed out if handler is NULL, which could lead to a memleak, fix it.

[Masami: Add "rethook:" tag to the title.]

Acke-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 54ecbe6f1ed5138c895bdff55608cf502755b20e to before cbc5d1f9a8cc40ba2bc6779b36d2ea1f65bc027cAffected
  • 54ecbe6f1ed5138c895bdff55608cf502755b20e to before 0a1ebe35cb3b7aa1f4b26b37e2a0b9ae68dc4ffbAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.18Affected
  • before 5.18Not affected
  • 6.0.10 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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