Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-50134

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: RDMA/hfi1: fix potential memory leak in setupbasectxt setupbasectxt allocates a memory chunk...

CVE-2022-50134

CVE-2022-50134 affects the Linux kernel RDMA/hfi1 path. The issue is a memory leak in setup_base_ctxt(): when allocating a uctxt->groups chunk via hfi1_alloc_ctxt_rcv_groups(), failure of init_user_ctxt() can leave uctxt->groups unreleased, causing a leak. The referenced advisories specify ...

CVE-2022-50134: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/hfi1: fix potential memory leak in setupbasectxt setupbasectxt allocates a memory chunk for uctxt-groups with hfi1allocctxtrcvgroups. When inituserctxt fails, uctxt-groups is not released, which will lead to a memory leak. W...