CVE-2022-49854 (GCVE-0-2022-49854)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 14:10 – Updated: 2025-10-01 16:07
VLAI?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mctp: Fix an error handling path in mctp_init() If mctp_neigh_init() return error, the routes resources should be released in the error handling path. Otherwise some resources leak.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 4d8b9319282ae84f5a17b28d8b5b5d1e7e537312 , < 49d8a6e24a3496d86e8d8ae748375df984fb6d6f (git)
Affected: 4d8b9319282ae84f5a17b28d8b5b5d1e7e537312 , < 216c83222d2eb24b0e63df56e8740b02c33286e8 (git)
Affected: 4d8b9319282ae84f5a17b28d8b5b5d1e7e537312 , < d4072058af4fd8fb4658e7452289042a406a9398 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.79 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.9 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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