CVE-2022-49627

ima: Fix potential memory leak in ima_init_crypto()

Medium · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ima: Fix potential memory leak in ima_init_crypto()

On failure to allocate the SHA1 tfm, IMA fails to initialize and exits

without freeing the ima_algo_array. Add the missing kfree() for

ima_algo_array to avoid the potential memory leak.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00271 · 18.3th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T02:23Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 02:23Z
    ima: Fix potential memory leak in ima_init_crypto()
    cvelistv5