CVE-2022-49627 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ima: Fix potential memory leak in ima_init_crypto()

On failure to allocate the SHA1 tfm IMA fails to initialize and exits without freeing the ima_algo_array. Add the missing kfree() for ima_algo_array to avoid the potential memory leak.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/067d2521874135267e681c19d42761c601d503d6 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/601ae26aa2802a4c10c94d7388a99eabdbefab2b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/830de9667b3ada0a75a3f098dfc7159709fe397b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1d9702ceb4a091da6bee380627596d1fba09274