Bug 2347933 (CVE-2022-49144)

Summary: CVE-2022-49144 kernel: io_uring: fix memory leak of uid in files registration
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:11:49 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring: fix memory leak of uid in files registration

When there are no files for __io_sqe_files_scm() to process in the
range, it'll free everything and return. However, it forgets to put uid.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 21:06:49 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022608-CVE-2022-49144-0d56@gregkh/T