CVE-2022-50424 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime5 documents5 sources

Severity

5.5MEDIUMNVD

EPSS

0.0%

top 94.52%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

Linux Linux Kernel Debian Linux

Timeline

PublishedOct 1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7921: resource leaks at mt7921_check_offload_capability() Fixed coverity issue with resource leaks at variable "fw" going out of scope leaks the storage it points to mt7921_check_offload_capability(). Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1527806 ("Resource leaks")

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_kernel6.2 — 6.2.3

▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.3.7-1+1

▶CVEListV5linux/linux034ae28b56f13dc1f2beb3fa294b455f57ede9cb — ead3cffd7510dc635d84cd4ea9dd1974fcb69a35+2

▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.3.7-1 (forky)

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

OSV

CVE-2022-50424: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7921: resource leaks at mt7921_check_offload_capability() Fixed cove↗2025-10-01

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GHSA

GHSA-v347-62gc-cr74: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7921: resource leaks at mt7921_check_offload_capability() Fixed co↗2025-10-01

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📋Vendor Advisories

Red Hat

kernel: wifi: mt76: mt7921: resource leaks at mt7921_check_offload_capability()↗2025-10-01

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Debian

CVE-2022-50424: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76:...↗2022

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