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CVE-2022-24959

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Date: February 10, 2022

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. There is a memory leak in yam_siocdevprivate in drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (10)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2022-24959

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5092

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-24959

Url: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.5

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24959

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-24959

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/29eb31542787e1019208a2e1047bb7c76c069536

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-24959

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CWE-401

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version v5.17-rc2

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	2.1
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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