CVE-2022-50479 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeCWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.28%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 4

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd: fix potential memory leak This patch fix potential memory leak (clk_src) when function run into last return NULL. s/free/kfree/ - Alex

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_kernel5.11 — 6.0.3
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.0.3-1+2
▶CVEListV5linux/linux3a83e4e64bb1522ddac67ffc787d1c38291e1a65 — a6e6ab9caeac96b277a3fe7da1dfa8f69a591759+2
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.0.3-1 (bookworm)

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-x6xm-99qg-g24m: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd: fix potential memory leak This patch fix potential memory leak (clk_src↗2025-10-04
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OSV
CVE-2022-50479: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd: fix potential memory leak This patch fix potential memory leak (clk_src)↗2025-10-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: drm/amd: fix potential memory leak↗2025-10-04
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Debian
CVE-2022-50479: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd: fi...↗2022
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