CVE-2022-50462Missing 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
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

NVDlinux/linux_kernel2.6.304.9.337+7
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.178-1+3
CVEListV5linux/linux1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e170e9913c2ed5cfc37c0adf0fdbd368d2d8d8168+9
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.4-1 (bookworm)

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
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 1fa5ae852025-10-01
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 1fa5ae857b2025-10-01

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting2025-10-01
Debian
CVE-2022-50462: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: vpe-m...2022