CVE-2022-49795 (GCVE-0-2022-49795)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 14:09 – Updated: 2025-05-04 08:45
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Title
rethook: fix a potential memleak in rethook_alloc()
Summary
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>
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Linux Linux Affected: 54ecbe6f1ed5138c895bdff55608cf502755b20e , < cbc5d1f9a8cc40ba2bc6779b36d2ea1f65bc027c (git)
Affected: 54ecbe6f1ed5138c895bdff55608cf502755b20e , < 0a1ebe35cb3b7aa1f4b26b37e2a0b9ae68dc4ffb (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.10 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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