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Change History

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

ima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash()

Commit f3cc6b25dcc5 ("ima: always measure and audit files in policy") lets
measurement or audit happen even if the file digest cannot be calculated.

As a result, iint->ima_hash could have been allocated despite
ima_collect_measurement() returning an error.

Since ima_hash belongs to a temporary inode metadata structure, declared
at the beginning of __ima_inode_hash(), just add a kfree() call if
ima_collect_measurement() returns an error different from -ENOMEM (in that
case, ima_hash should not have been allocated).

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c1d6a050a0f16e0a9d32eaf53b965c77279c6f8

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4df8cb38f139ed9f4296868c0a6f15a26e8c491

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f375bcf69f58fd0744c9dfd1b6b891a27301d67b