CVE-2022-50449 — 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
PublishedOct 1
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll()
If clk_register() fails, @pll->rate_table may have allocated memory by
kmemdup(), so it needs to be freed, otherwise will cause memory leak
issue, this patch fixes it.
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/linux3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 — 7b738276a596fa101d320591e9fa84ea0fc3f713+8
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-rxr7-x8x4-f7cc: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll()
If clk_register() f↗2025-10-01
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50449: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll() If clk_register() fai↗2025-10-01