Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-49408

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix memory leak in parseapplysbmountoptions If processing the on-disk mount options...

CVE-2022-49408

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix memory leak in parseapplysbmountoptions If processing the on-disk mount options fails after any memory was allocated in the ext4fscontext, e.g. sqfnames, then this memory is leaked. Fix this by calling ext4fcfree instea...

CVE-2022-49408 ext4: fix memory leak in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix memory leak in parseapplysbmountoptions If processing the on-disk mount options fails after any memory was allocated in the ext4fscontext, e.g. sqfnames, then this memory is leaked. Fix this by calling ext4fcfree instea...

CVE-2022-49408 ext4: fix memory leak in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix memory leak in parseapplysbmountoptions If processing the on-disk mount options fails after any memory was allocated in the ext4fscontext, e.g. sqfnames, then this memory is leaked. Fix this by calling ext4fcfree instea...

CVE-2022-49408

CVE-2022-49408 involves a memory-leak in ext4 when parsing on-disk mount options in the Linux kernel. The root cause is memory allocated in ext4_fs_context not being freed if option processing fails; the fix replaces direct kfree() with ext4_fc_free(). Practical impact is a leak during mounting w...