Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting libperf package, versions <0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-LIBPERF-15677378
  • published18 Mar 2026
  • disclosed24 Dec 2025

Introduced: 24 Dec 2025

CVE-2022-50748  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 libperf to version 0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:9315.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libperf package and not the libperf package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

ipc: mqueue: fix possible memory leak in init_mqueue_fs()

commit db7cfc380900 ("ipc: Free mq_sysctls if ipc namespace creation failed")

Here's a similar memory leak to the one fixed by the patch above. retire_mq_sysctls need to be called when init_mqueue_fs fails after setup_mq_sysctls.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1