CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50400
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-18
- 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:
staging: greybus: audio_helper: remove unused and wrong debugfs usage
In the greybus audio_helper code, the debugfs file for the dapm has the
potential to be removed and memory will be leaked. There is also the
very real potential for this code to remove ALL debugfs entries from the
system, and it seems like this is what will really happen if this code
ever runs. This all is very wrong as the greybus audio driver did not
create this debugfs file, the sound core did and controls the lifespan
of it.
So remove all of the debugfs logic from the audio_helper code as there's
no way it could be correct. If this really is needed, it can come back
with a fixup for the incorrect usage of the debugfs_lookup() call which
is what caused this to be noticed at all.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.10.150)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.75)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.19.17)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0 < 6.0.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4dab0d27a4211a27135a6899d6c737e6e0759a11 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5699afbff1fa2972722e863906c0320d55dd4d58 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0febad83e29d85bb66e4f5cac0115b022403338 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d517cdeb904ddc0cbebcc959d43596426cac40b0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d835fa49d9589a780ff0d001bb7e6323238a4afb Patch