CVE-2022-48768

CVE-2022-48768: vulnerability in Linux

tracing/histogram: Fix a potential memory leak for kstrdup()

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3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 90% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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).
Affected products
Linux · Linux
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a8878ebb596281f50fc0b9a6e1f23f0d7f154e8https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d71b06aa995007eafd247626d0669b9364c42ad7https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df86e2fe808c3536a9dba353cc2bebdfea00d0cfhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e33fa4a46ee22de88a700e2e3d033da8214a5175https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e629e7b525a179e29d53463d992bdee759c950fb