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GHSA-F7XM-7MW8-VGHC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-17 18:31 – Updated: 2025-03-17 18:31

Details

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

amt: fix memory leak for advertisement message

When a gateway receives an advertisement message, it extracts relay information and then it should be freed. But the advertisement handler doesn't free it. So, memory leak would occur.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2022-49461 (GCVE-0-2022-49461)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:13 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:00

Title

amt: fix memory leak for advertisement message

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: amt: fix memory leak for advertisement message When a gateway receives an advertisement message, it extracts relay information and then it should be freed. But the advertisement handler doesn't free it. So, memory leak would occur.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Assigner

Linux

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19bb2d57eac86a368…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7322da399fb86a20…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe29794c3585d039f…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4 , < 19bb2d57eac86a368839a92117d8a10ab7183623 (git) Affected: cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4 , < e7322da399fb86a2072f008b56f7160afa1b2051 (git) Affected: cbc21dc1cfe949e37b2a54c71511579f1899e8d4 , < fe29794c3585d039fefebaa2b5a4932a627ad4fd (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver) Unaffected: 5.17.14 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.18.3 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-F7XM-7MW8-VGHC

CVE-2022-49461 (GCVE-0-2022-49461)

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