CVE-2022-50352 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.75%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 16
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: hns: fix possible memory leak in hnae_ae_register()
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 0xffff00c01aba2100 (size 128):
comm "systemd-udevd", pid 1259, jiffies 4294903284 (age 294…
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/linux6fe6611ff275522a4e4c0359e2f46cdd07780d2f — a3c148955c22fe1d94d7a2096005679c1f22eddf+8
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2OSV▶
CVE-2022-50352: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: hns: fix possible memory leak in hnae_ae_register() Inject fault while probin↗2025-09-16
GHSA▶
GHSA-x55j-xpqj-9hr9: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: hns: fix possible memory leak in hnae_ae_register()
Inject fault while prob↗2025-09-16