CVE-2022-50707 (GCVE-0-2022-50707)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:55 – Updated: 2025-12-24 10:55
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Title
virtio-crypto: fix memory leak in virtio_crypto_alg_skcipher_close_session()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-crypto: fix memory leak in virtio_crypto_alg_skcipher_close_session() 'vc_ctrl_req' is alloced in virtio_crypto_alg_skcipher_close_session(), and should be freed in the invalid ctrl_status->status error handling case. Otherwise there is a memory leak.
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Linux Linux Affected: 4ee475e76b5ea8061970a7c867ffa5eedeb39580 , < 79026a2d0a1b080257773d22a493f9bcab8c65be (git)
Affected: 0756ad15b1fef287d4d8fa11bc36ea77a5c42e4a , < 67fb59ff1384e338679c0eb7a43c83ce8868c9fa (git)
Affected: 0756ad15b1fef287d4d8fa11bc36ea77a5c42e4a , < 0871df190fe6723464efe0f493d476411616f553 (git)
Affected: 0756ad15b1fef287d4d8fa11bc36ea77a5c42e4a , < b1d65f717cd6305a396a8738e022c6f7c65cfbe8 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.19 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.5 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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