CVE-2022-50577 (GCVE-0-2022-50577)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-22 13:23 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:22
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Title
ima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash() Commit f3cc6b25dcc5 ("ima: always measure and audit files in policy") lets measurement or audit happen even if the file digest cannot be calculated. As a result, iint->ima_hash could have been allocated despite ima_collect_measurement() returning an error. Since ima_hash belongs to a temporary inode metadata structure, declared at the beginning of __ima_inode_hash(), just add a kfree() call if ima_collect_measurement() returns an error different from -ENOMEM (in that case, ima_hash should not have been allocated).
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 280fe8367b0dc45b6ac5e04fad03e16e99540c0c , < c4df8cb38f139ed9f4296868c0a6f15a26e8c491 (git)
Affected: 280fe8367b0dc45b6ac5e04fad03e16e99540c0c , < f375bcf69f58fd0744c9dfd1b6b891a27301d67b (git)
Affected: 280fe8367b0dc45b6ac5e04fad03e16e99540c0c , < 8c1d6a050a0f16e0a9d32eaf53b965c77279c6f8 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.18 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.4 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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