CVE-2022-50761 (GCVE-0-2022-50761)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 13:05 – Updated: 2025-12-24 13:05
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Title
x86/xen: Fix memory leak in xen_init_lock_cpu()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/xen: Fix memory leak in xen_init_lock_cpu() In xen_init_lock_cpu(), the @name has allocated new string by kasprintf(), if bind_ipi_to_irqhandler() fails, it should be freed, otherwise may lead to a memory leak issue, fix it.
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Linux Linux Affected: 2d9e1e2f58b5612aa4eab0ab54c84308a29dbd79 , < 9278bdbb566656b3704704f8dd6cbc24a6fcc569 (git)
Affected: 2d9e1e2f58b5612aa4eab0ab54c84308a29dbd79 , < 07764d00c869a3390bd4f80412cc8b0e669e6c58 (git)
Affected: 2d9e1e2f58b5612aa4eab0ab54c84308a29dbd79 , < 53ff99c76be611acea37d33133c9136969914865 (git)
Affected: 2d9e1e2f58b5612aa4eab0ab54c84308a29dbd79 , < 29198f667f4486f9e227e11faf1411fcf4c82a66 (git)
Affected: 2d9e1e2f58b5612aa4eab0ab54c84308a29dbd79 , < 70e7f308d7a8e915c7fbc0f1d959968eab8000cd (git)
Affected: 2d9e1e2f58b5612aa4eab0ab54c84308a29dbd79 , < 70966d6b0f59f795b08a70adf5e4478348ecbfbb (git)
Affected: 2d9e1e2f58b5612aa4eab0ab54c84308a29dbd79 , < 798fc3cf98ca07e448956f39295c5d686ab4b054 (git)
Affected: 2d9e1e2f58b5612aa4eab0ab54c84308a29dbd79 , < b44457b83a034efef58ffa5f3131d4615f1a9837 (git)
Affected: 2d9e1e2f58b5612aa4eab0ab54c84308a29dbd79 , < ca84ce153d887b1dc8b118029976cc9faf2a9b40 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.27
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.27 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.9.337 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.303 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.270 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.229 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.163 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.86 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.16 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.2 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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