CVE-2022-50042 Affecting kernel-selftests-internal package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELSELFTESTSINTERNAL-10413821
  • published19 Jun 2025
  • disclosed18 Jun 2025

Introduced: 18 Jun 2025

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How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-selftests-internal.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-selftests-internal package and not the kernel-selftests-internal package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: genl: fix error path memory leak in policy dumping

If construction of the array of policies fails when recording non-first policy we need to unwind.

netlink_policy_dump_add_policy() itself also needs fixing as it currently gives up on error without recording the allocated pointer in the pstate pointer.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1