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CVE-2022-50042

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2025-06-18 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: genl: fix error path memory leak in policy dumping If construction of the array of policies fails when recording non-first policy we need to unwind. netlink_policy_dump_add_policy() itself also needs fixing as it currently gives up on error without recording the allocated pointer in the pstate pointer.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-401

References