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

mm/mempolicy: fix memory leak in set_mempolicy_home_node system call

When encountering any vma in the range with policy other than MPOL_BIND or
MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY, an error is returned without issuing a mpol_put on
the policy just allocated with mpol_dup().

This allows arbitrary users to leak kernel memory.
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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History

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mempolicy: fix memory leak in set_mempolicy_home_node system call When encountering any vma in the range with policy other than MPOL_BIND or MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY, an error is returned without issuing a mpol_put on the policy just allocated with mpol_dup(). This allows arbitrary users to leak kernel memory.
Title mm/mempolicy: fix memory leak in set_mempolicy_home_node system call
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-09-18T13:33:10.768Z

Reserved: 2025-09-17T14:53:06.998Z

Link: CVE-2022-50391

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-09-18T14:15:38.127

Modified: 2025-09-18T14:15:38.127

Link: CVE-2022-50391

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