CVE-2022-49627 ima: Fix potential memory leak in ima_init_crypto()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ima: Fix potential memory leak in imainitcrypto On failure to allocate the SHA1 tfm, IMA fails to initialize and exits without freeing the imaalgoarray. Add the missing kfree for imaalgoarray to avoid the potential memory leak...

CVE-2022-49627

CVE-2022-49627 targets the Linux kernel’s Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA). The advisory notes a memory leak possibility in ima_init_crypto() if SHA1 tfm allocation fails, where the ima_algo_array may not be freed. The documented fix adds the missing kfree() for ima_algo_array to prevent ...

CVE-2022-49627: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ima: Fix potential memory leak in imainitcrypto On failure to allocate the SHA1 tfm, IMA fails to initialize and exits without freeing the imaalgoarray. Add the missing kfree for imaalgoarray to avoid the potential memory leak...