UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48669

    Published: 1 May 2024Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-48669
    Aliases:
    USN-6816-1
    USN-6817-1
    USN-6817-2

    Summary:

    Details: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries: Fix potential memleak in papr_get_attr() `buf` is allocated in papr_get_attr(), and krealloc() of `buf` could fail. We need to free the original `buf` in the case of failure.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-48669, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48669, https://git.kernel.org/linus/cda9c0d556283e2d4adaa9960b2dc19b16156bae, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3f22feb2220a945d1c3282e34199e8bcdc5afc4, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1699fb915b9f61794d559b55114c09a390aaf234, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f7d39fe3d80d6143404940b2413010cf6527029, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0647c3e81eff62b66d46fd4e475318cb8cb3610, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cda9c0d556283e2d4adaa9960b2dc19b16156bae, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6816-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6817-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6817-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6817-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6878-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-hwe-edge

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.8.0-28.30~16.04.1
    4.8.0-30.32~16.04.1
    4.8.0-32.34~16.04.1
    4.8.0-34.36~16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High