CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-50474

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-10-04
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
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device() Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically. It needs to be freed when of_device_register() fails. Call put_device() to give up the reference that's taken in device_initialize(), so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hits 0. macio device is freed in macio_release_dev(), so the kfree() can be removed.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.30 < 4.9.337) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.303) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.270) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.229) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.163) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.86) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.16) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.1 < 6.1.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References