CVE-2022-50042

A flaw was found in the netlink driver in the Linux kernel. A memory leak can occur when allocated memory is not released in certain error cases, potentially impacting system performance and resulting in a denial of service. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the...

CVE-2022-50042

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: genl: fix error path memory leak in policy dumping If construction of the array of policies fails when recording non-first policy we need to unwind. netlinkpolicydumpaddpolicy itself also needs fixing as it currently gives u...

CVE-2022-50042

CVE-2022-50042 refers to a Linux kernel vulnerability in the net: genl code for policy dumping. The issue is a memory leak in error paths when constructing the array of policies if recording non-first policies fails, and in netlink_policy_dump_add_policy which currently may not record the allocat...