CVE-2022-24959

medium

Description

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.

References

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-02-11

Updated: 2022-05-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium