CVE-2022-49795: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rethook: fix a potential memleak in rethook_alloc() In rethook_alloc(), the variable rh is not freed or passed out if handler is NULL, which could lead to a memleak, fix it. [Masami: Add "rethook:" tag to the title.] Acke-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.18, before 6.0.10 (fixed in 6.0.10); version 6.1 only

Published 2025-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.