Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-48775 - 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: 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().
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/417947891bd5ae327f15efed1a0da2b12ef24962
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe595759c2a4a5bb41c438474f15947d8ae32f5c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91d8866ca55232d21995a3d54fac96de33c9e20c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c377e2ba78d3fe9a1f0b4ec424e75f81da7e81e9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92e25b637cd4e010f776c86e4810300e773eac5c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bc69f86328e87a0ffa79438430cc82f3aa6a194