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User Interaction
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Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
Local
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CVE-2022-48775

Disclosure Date: July 16, 2024
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj

kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add():

If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel
Technical Analysis