CVE-2022-50331 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 15
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wwan_hwsim: fix possible memory leak in wwan_hwsim_dev_new()
Inject fault while probing module, if device_register() fails,
but the refcount of kobject is not decreased to 0, the name
allocated in dev_set_name() is leaked. Fix this by calling
put_device(), so that name can be freed in callback function
kobject_cleanup().
unreferenced object 0xffff88810152ad20 (size 8):
comm "modprobe", pid 252, jiffies 4294849206 (age 22.713s…
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
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxf36a111a74e71edbba27d4c0cf3d7bbccc172108 — 50c31fa952309536c6e4461ff815ddccc8dff9d5+3
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2OSV▶
CVE-2022-50331: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wwan_hwsim: fix possible memory leak in wwan_hwsim_dev_new() Inject fault while pr↗2025-09-15
GHSA▶
GHSA-2wr3-6ffm-mq44: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wwan_hwsim: fix possible memory leak in wwan_hwsim_dev_new()
Inject fault while↗2025-09-15