CVE-2022-48768 (GCVE-0-2022-48768)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-06-20 11:13
Modified
2026-05-23 15:20
Severity ?
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).
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 38b67e60b6b582e81f9db1b2e7176cbbfbd3e574
Version: d380dcde9a07ca5de4805dee11f58a98ec0ad6ff
Version: d380dcde9a07ca5de4805dee11f58a98ec0ad6ff
Version: d380dcde9a07ca5de4805dee11f58a98ec0ad6ff
Version: d380dcde9a07ca5de4805dee11f58a98ec0ad6ff
Version: c78a2baf5e1fe1b38121d6b54bab77ccb81a1a86
Version: 5.4.19   ≤
Version: 5.5.6   ≤
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