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Status published
Medium
CVE-2022-48641
netfilter: ebtables: fix memory leak when blob is malformed
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ebtables: fix memory leak when blob is malformed The bug fix was incomplete, it "replaced" crash with a memory leak. The old code had an assignment to "ret" embedded into the conditional, restore this.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/754e8b74281dd54a324698803483f47cf3355ae1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e98318af2f163eadaff815abcef38d27ca92c1e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11ebf32fde46572b0aaf3c2bdd97d923ef5a03ab
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebd97dbe3c55d68346b9c5fb00634a7f5b10bbee
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5917b7af7cae0e2804f9d127a03268035098b7f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38cf372b17f0a5f35c1b716a100532d539f0eb33
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62ce44c4fff947eebdf10bb582267e686e6835c9
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Affected Vendor
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Vulnerable Versions:
afd01382594d643e1adeb16826423b418cdf8b8b, 358765beb836f5fc2ed26b5df4140d5d3548ac11, 160c4eb47db03b96c0c425358e7595ebefe8094d, 624c30521233e110cf50ba01980a591e045036ae, 1b2c5428f773d60c116c7b1e390432e0cfb63cd6, e53cfa017bf4575d0b948a8f45313ef66d897136, 7997eff82828304b780dc0a39707e1946d6f1ebf, 4.14.292, 4.19.257, 5.4.212, 5.10.140, 5.15.64, 5.19.6
Timeline
Official Publish:
April 28th, 2024
Last Modified:
May 11th, 2026
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.