Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 18, 2025· Updated Sep 3, 2025

selinux: fix memleak in security_read_state_kernel()

CVE-2022-50201

Description

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

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]

Affected products

Linux/Linux Kernel Rtllm-fuzzy
osv-coords81 versions
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pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.3 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.3 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-zfcpdump&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-zfcpdump&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-zfcpdump&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.3
< 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2+ 80 more
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- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2.150400.24.86.2
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- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1.150500.6.53.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1.150500.6.53.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1.150500.6.53.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150500.13.100.2
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- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150400.24.170.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150500.13.100.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150400.24.170.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150400.24.170.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2
Linux/Linuxv5
Range: 5.12

Patches

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