CVE-2022-50431Missing 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
Timeline
PublishedOct 1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: aoa: i2sbus: fix possible memory leak in i2sbus_add_dev() dev_set_name() in soundbus_add_one() allocates memory for name, it need be freed when of_device_register() fails, call soundbus_dev_put() to give up the reference that hold in device_initialize(), so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0. And other resources are also freed in i2sbus_release_dev(), so it can return 0 directly.

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_kernel2.6.184.9.332+7
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.158-1+3
CVEListV5linux/linuxf3d9478b2ce468c3115b02ecae7e975990697f15fd410d24665e4efb3c1796797181265efe553e9c+8
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.0.7-1 (bookworm)

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-vpwm-38qh-r5h8: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: aoa: i2sbus: fix possible memory leak in i2sbus_add_dev() dev_set_name() i2025-10-01
OSV
CVE-2022-50431: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: aoa: i2sbus: fix possible memory leak in i2sbus_add_dev() dev_set_name() in2025-10-01

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: ALSA: aoa: i2sbus: fix possible memory leak in i2sbus_add_dev()2025-10-01
Debian
CVE-2022-50431: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: aoa: ...2022
CVE-2022-50431 — Linux vulnerability | cvebase