PT-2024-10537

CVE-2022-48831

Published

2022-01-24

Updated

2025-09-25

Description by

CVSS 3.1

5.5

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a reference leak in the asymmetric verify() function of the Linux kernel's ima component. This leak occurs when the algorithm of a key is unknown. The exploitation of this issue may lead to a denial of service.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploitability

Exploit

Impacts

Researchers

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Related identifiers

CVE-2022-48831

BDU:2025-01088