CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-49915

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-05-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-05-01
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: mISDN: fix possible memory leak in mISDN_register_device() Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, add put_device() to give up the reference, so that the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount is 0. Set device class before put_device() to avoid null release() function WARN message in device_release().

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.30 < 4.9.333) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.299) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.265) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.224) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.154) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.78) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.8) • linux linux kernel 6.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References