CVE-2022-50577

ima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 22, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 22, 2025

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Description

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

ima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash()

Commit f3cc6b25dcc5 ("ima: always measure and audit files in policy") lets measurement or audit happen even if the file digest cannot be calculated.

As a result, iint->ima_hash could have been allocated despite ima_collect_measurement() returning an error.

Since ima_hash belongs to a temporary inode metadata structure, declared at the beginning of __ima_inode_hash(), just add a kfree() call if ima_collect_measurement() returns an error different from -ENOMEM (in that case, ima_hash should not have been allocated).

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 280fe8367b0dc45b6ac5e04fad03e16e99540c0c to before c4df8cb38f139ed9f4296868c0a6f15a26e8c491Affected
  • 280fe8367b0dc45b6ac5e04fad03e16e99540c0c to before f375bcf69f58fd0744c9dfd1b6b891a27301d67bAffected
  • 280fe8367b0dc45b6ac5e04fad03e16e99540c0c to before 8c1d6a050a0f16e0a9d32eaf53b965c77279c6f8Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.18Affected
  • before 5.18Not affected
  • 6.0.18 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1.4 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2 and laterNot affected

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