Bug 2363386 (CVE-2022-49795) - CVE-2022-49795 kernel: rethook: fix a potential memleak in rethook_alloc()
Summary: CVE-2022-49795 kernel: rethook: fix a potential memleak in rethook_alloc()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49795
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-05-01 15:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-19 09:41 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:02:46 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rethook: fix a potential memleak in rethook_alloc()

In rethook_alloc(), the variable rh is not freed or passed out
if handler is NULL, which could lead to a memleak, fix it.

[Masami: Add "rethook:" tag to the title.]

Acke-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat>
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 03:37:10 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050124-CVE-2022-49795-e512@gregkh/T
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