CVE-2022-50577

ima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash()

published October 22, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash()

Commit f3cc6b25dcc5 ("ima: always measure and audit files in policy") lets

measurement or audit happen even if the file digest cannot be calculated.

As a result, iint->ima_hash could have been allocated despite

ima_collect_measurement() returning an error.

Since ima_hash belongs to a temporary inode metadata structure, declared

at the beginning of __ima_inode_hash(), just add a kfree() call if

ima_collect_measurement() returns an error different from -ENOMEM (in that

case, ima_hash should not have been allocated).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00211 · 10.9th percentile
Published
2025-10-22T13:23Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 OCT 13:23Z
    ima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash()
    cvelistv5