Bug 2373649 (CVE-2022-50201)

Summary: CVE-2022-50201 kernel: selinux: fix memleak in security_read_state_kernel()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:12:16 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

selinux: fix memleak in security_read_state_kernel()

In this function, it directly returns the result of __security_read_policy
without freeing the allocated memory in *data, cause memory leak issue,
so free the memory if __security_read_policy failed.

[PM: subject line tweak]
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-18 22:04:50 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061840-CVE-2022-50201-7b57@gregkh/T