CVE-2022-48669: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.18, before 6.1.83 (fixed in 6.1.83); from 6.2, before 6.6.23 (fixed in 6.6.23); from 6.7, before 6.7.11 (fixed in 6.7.11); from 6.8, before 6.8.2 (fixed in 6.8.2)

Published 2024-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.