Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-48768 - Memory Leak vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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).
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a8878ebb596281f50fc0b9a6e1f23f0d7f154e8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d71b06aa995007eafd247626d0669b9364c42ad7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e33fa4a46ee22de88a700e2e3d033da8214a5175
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df86e2fe808c3536a9dba353cc2bebdfea00d0cf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e629e7b525a179e29d53463d992bdee759c950fb