5.5

CVE-2022-48768

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

tracing/histogram: Fix a potential memory leak for kstrdup()

kfree() is missing on an error path to free the memory allocated by
kstrdup():

  p = param = kstrdup(data->params[i], GFP_KERNEL);

So it is better to free it via kfree(p).
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.4.19 < 5.4.176
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.6 < 5.10.96
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.19
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 5.16.5
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version5.17 Updaterc1
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.04% 0.089
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.