SUSE CVE-2022-50765

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RISC-V: kexec: Fix memory leak of elf header buffer This is reported by kmemleak detector: unreferenced object 0xff2000000403d000 size 4096: comm "kexec", pid 146, jiffies 4294900633 age 64.792s hex dump first 32 bytes: 7f 45 4c ...

CVE-2022-50765

CVE-2022-50765 affects the Linux kernel (RISC‑V) in the kexec path. The root cause is a memory leak: a buffer used to store ELF headers is allocated with vzalloc() during elf_kexec_load and is not freed when the kdump kernel is reloaded/unloaded or when image->elf_header is set and loading sub...