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CVE-2022-50577

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CVE-2022-50577

Published: Oct 22, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash() Commit f3cc6b25dcc5 ("ima: always measure and audit files in policy") lets measurement or audit happen even if the file digest cannot be calculated. As a result, iint->ima_hash could have been allocated despite ima_collect_measurement() returning an error. Since ima_hash belongs to a temporary inode metadata structure, declared at the beginning of __ima_inode_hash(), just add a kfree() call if ima_collect_measurement() returns an error different from -ENOMEM (in that case, ima_hash should not have been allocated).

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
280fe8367b0dc45b6ac5e04fad03e16e99540c0c - < c4df8cb38f139ed9f4296868c0a6f15a26e8c491
affected
280fe8367b0dc45b6ac5e04fad03e16e99540c0c - < f375bcf69f58fd0744c9dfd1b6b891a27301d67b
affected
280fe8367b0dc45b6ac5e04fad03e16e99540c0c - < 8c1d6a050a0f16e0a9d32eaf53b965c77279c6f8

Linux

Linux

affected
5.18
unaffected
0 - < 5.18
unaffected
6.0.18 - <= 6.0.*
unaffected
6.1.4 - <= 6.1.*
unaffected
6.2 - <= *

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