CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49951
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware_loader: Fix use-after-free during unregister
In the following code within firmware_upload_unregister(), the call to
device_unregister() could result in the dev_release function freeing the
fw_upload_priv structure before it is dereferenced for the call to
module_put(). This bug was found by the kernel test robot using
CONFIG_KASAN while running the firmware selftests.
device_unregister(&fw_sysfs->dev);
module_put(fw_upload_priv->module);
The problem is fixed by copying fw_upload_priv->module to a local variable
for use when calling device_unregister().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 5.19.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness