CVE-2022-49996

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix possible memory leak in btrfsgetdevargsfrompath In btrfsgetdevargsfrompath, btrfsgetbdevandsb can fail if the path is invalid. In this case, btrfsgetdevargsfrompath returns directly without freeing args-uuid and...

CVE-2022-49996

CVE-2022-49996 is a Linux kernel issue affecting the btrfs subsystem. The vulnerability arises when btrfs_get_dev_args_from_path() calls btrfs_get_bdev_and_sb() with an invalid path, causing the function to return without freeing previously allocated memory for args->uuid and args->fsid, wh...