CVE-2022-50462 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.44%
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:
MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting
Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's
bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically,
it need be freed when module exiting, call put_device() to give up
reference, so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the
refcount hit to 0. The vpe_device is static, so remove kfree() from
vpe_device_release().
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/linux1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e — 170e9913c2ed5cfc37c0adf0fdbd368d2d8d8168+9
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-72vp-mgcv-889w: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting
Afer commit 1fa5ae85↗2025-10-01
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50462: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting Afer commit 1fa5ae857b↗2025-10-01