Riskcovery

CVE-2022-49906

ibmvnic: Free rwi on reset success

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
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:

ibmvnic: Free rwi on reset success

Free the rwi structure in the event that the last rwi in the list processed successfully. The logic in commit 4f408e1fa6e1 ("ibmvnic: retry reset if there are no other resets") introduces an issue that results in a 32 byte memory leak whenever the last rwi in the list gets processed.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 4f408e1fa6e10b6da72691233369172bac7d9e9b to before 535b78739ae75f257c894a05b1afa86ad9a3669eAffected
  • 4f408e1fa6e10b6da72691233369172bac7d9e9b to before c3543a287cfba9105dcc4bb41eb817f51266caafAffected
  • 4f408e1fa6e10b6da72691233369172bac7d9e9b to before d6dd2fe71153f0ff748bf188bd4af076fe09a0a6Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.14Affected
  • before 5.14Not affected
  • 5.15.78 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.0.8 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

References

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