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medium5.5

CVE-2022-49442

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers/base/node.c: fix compaction sysfs file leak Compaction sysfs file is created via co…

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers/base/node.c: fix compaction sysfs file leak Compaction sysfs file is created via compaction_register_node in register_node. But we forgot to remove it in unregister_node. Thus compaction sysfs file is leaked. Using compaction_unregister_node to fix this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 2.6.35 before 4.9.318
from 4.10 before 4.14.283
from 4.15 before 4.19.247
from 4.20 before 5.4.198
from 5.5 before 5.10.121
from 5.11 before 5.15.46

Weakness classification

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