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CVE-2022-50201 (GCVE-0-2022-50201)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:03 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:14
VLAI
Title
selinux: fix memleak in security_read_state_kernel()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux: fix memleak in security_read_state_kernel() In this function, it directly returns the result of __security_read_policy without freeing the allocated memory in *data, cause memory leak issue, so free the memory if __security_read_policy failed. [PM: subject line tweak]
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: fdd1ffe8a812b1109388e4bc389e57b2695ad095 , < c877c5217145bda8fd95f506bf42f8d981afa57d (git)
Affected: fdd1ffe8a812b1109388e4bc389e57b2695ad095 , < f3cd7562c0a6774fc62d79654482014020e574f5 (git)
Affected: fdd1ffe8a812b1109388e4bc389e57b2695ad095 , < 1fc1f72aad2070d34022d0823e4cf09706b53f25 (git)
Affected: fdd1ffe8a812b1109388e4bc389e57b2695ad095 , < 73de1befcc53a7c68b0c5e76b9b5ac41c517760f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.61 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.18 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.2 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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