CVE-2022-49906

ibmvnic: Free rwi on reset success

Medium · published May 1, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ibmvnic: Free rwi on reset success

Free the rwi structure in the event that the last rwi in the list

processed successfully. The logic in commit 4f408e1fa6e1 ("ibmvnic:

retry reset if there are no other resets") introduces an issue that

results in a 32 byte memory leak whenever the last rwi in the list

gets processed.

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
0.00199 · 9.2th percentile
Published
2025-05-01T14:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 14:10Z
    ibmvnic: Free rwi on reset success
    cvelistv5