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CVE-2022-50074

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: Fix memleak in aa_simple_write_to_buffer() When copy_from_user failed, the memory…

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: Fix memleak in aa_simple_write_to_buffer() When copy_from_user failed, the memory is freed by kvfree. however the management struct and data blob are allocated independently, so only kvfree(data) cause a memleak issue here. Use aa_put_loaddata(data) to fix this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 4.17 before 4.19.256
from 4.20 before 5.4.211
from 5.5 before 5.10.138
from 5.11 before 5.15.63
from 5.16 before 5.19.4

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