CVE-2022-50355 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.77%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 17
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: vt6655: fix some erroneous memory clean-up loops
In some initialization functions of this driver, memory is allocated with
'i' acting as an index variable and increasing from 0. The commit in
"Fixes" introduces some clean-up codes in case of allocation failure,
which free memory in reverse order with 'i' decreasing to 0. However,
there are some problems:
- The case i=0 is left out. Thus memory is leaked.
- In case mem…
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/linux5341ee0adb17d12a96dc5344e0d267cd12b52135 — 637672a71f5016a40b0a6c0f3c8ad25eacedc8c3+7
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-r7xh-cr9c-6wxq: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: vt6655: fix some erroneous memory clean-up loops
In some initialization↗2025-09-17
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50355: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: vt6655: fix some erroneous memory clean-up loops In some initialization f↗2025-09-17