CVE-2022-50201
kernel: selinux: fix memleak in security_read_state_kernel()
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · June 18, 2025
Updated · July 22, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
selinux: fix memleak in security_read_state_kernel()
In this function, it directly returns the result of __security_read_policy without freeing the allocated memory in *data, cause memory leak issue, so free the memory if __security_read_policy failed.
[PM: subject line tweak]
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE not specified