CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49284
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
coresight: syscfg: Fix memleak on registration failure in cscfg_create_device
device_register() calls device_initialize(),
according to doc of device_initialize:
Use put_device() to give up your reference instead of freeing
* @dev directly once you have called this function.
To prevent potential memleak, use put_device() for error handling.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15 < 5.15.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.16.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.17 < 5.17.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/412225b32986d5b11c3c1ad9234c50a3f5c52c76 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a529af1f5a5c096f3e18f0d5a32cfcc3d82df1ec Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c61e2fc87f24cae4701f352fe9ecd4c5c143106c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfa5dbcdd7aece76f3415284569f2f384aff0253 Patch