Security Advisory

CVE-2022-50042

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-06-18 11:01:43
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:11:43
Assigner Linux
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.