CVE-2022-48709 (GCVE-0-2022-48709)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-21 15:22 – Updated: 2026-05-11 18:45
VLAI
Title
ice: switch: fix potential memleak in ice_add_adv_recipe()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: switch: fix potential memleak in ice_add_adv_recipe() When ice_add_special_words() fails, the 'rm' is not released, which will lead to a memory leak. Fix this up by going to 'err_unroll' label. Compile tested only.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-22 18:28 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6843 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8b032a55c1bd5d47527263445aba9dc45144b00d , < 47f4ff6f23f00f5501ff2d7054c1a37c170a7aa0 (git)
Affected: 8b032a55c1bd5d47527263445aba9dc45144b00d , < 4a606ce68426c88ff2563382b33cc34f3485fe57 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.12 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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