CVE-2022-49878

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

Description A memory leak issue has been resolved in the Linux kernel. The problem occurred when the krealloc() function returned an error (NULL), and the callers of realloc array() set their allocation pointers to NULL. However, krealloc() does not modify the original allocation in case of an error, resulting in a memory resource leak. The issue was fixed by freeing the old allocation on the error handling path.

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