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GHSA-PJ5F-G5WQ-XH99

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-18 21:31 – Updated: 2025-03-18 21:32

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/mlx5: Fix memory leak in error flow for subscribe event routine

In case the second xa_insert() fails, the obj_event is not released. Fix the error unwind flow to free that memory to avoid a memory leak.

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2022-49206 (GCVE-0-2022-49206)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 01:55 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:56

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mlx5: Fix memory leak in error flow for subscribe event routine In case the second xa_insert() fails, the obj_event is not released. Fix the error unwind flow to free that memory to avoid a memory 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

CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0174a89663a5ef836…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c98d903ff9e79c210…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8dd392e352d326993…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d66498507801fd9a2…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/414b4e8738484379f…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/087f9c3f2309ed183…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 7597385371425febdaa8c6a1da3625d4ffff16f5 , < 0174a89663a5ef83617da15bf24c0af2f62b6c7f (git)
Affected: 7597385371425febdaa8c6a1da3625d4ffff16f5 , < c98d903ff9e79c210beddea4e6bc15ac38e25aa5 (git)
Affected: 7597385371425febdaa8c6a1da3625d4ffff16f5 , < 8dd392e352d3269938fea32061a74655a613f929 (git)
Affected: 7597385371425febdaa8c6a1da3625d4ffff16f5 , < d66498507801fd9a20307a15a0814a0a016c3cde (git)
Affected: 7597385371425febdaa8c6a1da3625d4ffff16f5 , < 414b4e8738484379f18d6c4e780787c80dbf8a2c (git)
Affected: 7597385371425febdaa8c6a1da3625d4ffff16f5 , < 087f9c3f2309ed183f7e4b85ae57121d8663224d (git)

Linux

Affected: 5.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.189 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.110 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.33 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16.19 , ≤ 5.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.2 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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