CVE-2022-50264 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime6 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV4.7
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.77%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 15

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: socfpga: Fix memory leak in socfpga_gate_init() Free @socfpga_clk and @ops on the error path to avoid memory leak issue.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.1 — 5.4.229+4
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.178-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxa30a67be7b6e1117e0c0f5bcf84328ccdb8d6205 — 6f2198914fb9aac286a6ff6cf09b23752141e04f+6
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.4-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
CVE-2022-50264: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: socfpga: Fix memory leak in socfpga_gate_init() Free @socfpga_clk and @ops on↗2025-09-15
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GHSA
GHSA-q3h3-6f9f-6q98: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: socfpga: Fix memory leak in socfpga_gate_init() Free @socfpga_clk and @ops↗2025-09-15
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OSV
linux-raspi-5.4 vulnerabilities↗2025-01-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: clk: socfpga: Fix memory leak in socfpga_gate_init()↗2025-09-15
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Debian
CVE-2022-50264: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: socfpg...↗2022
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