CVE-2022-49627: 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: 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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.8, before 5.10.132 (fixed in 5.10.132); from 5.11, before 5.15.56 (fixed in 5.15.56); from 5.16, before 5.18.13 (fixed in 5.18.13); version 5.19 only

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.