5.5

CVE-2022-48775

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

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj

kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()：

   If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
   properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 4.15 < 4.19.231
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 4.20 < 5.4.181
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.102
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.25
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 5.16.11
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.01% 0.004
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.