CVE-2022-50523 — 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 7
Latest updateApr 19
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: rockchip: Fix memory leak in rockchip_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/linux90c590254051f511299538c158e12fdad41ce163 — 20201c3a0a32f127fa4bdf379d6ac01c2978702d+9
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3VulDB
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OSV▶
CVE-2022-50523: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: rockchip: Fix memory leak in rockchip_clk_register_pll() If clk_register() fa↗2025-10-07
GHSA▶
GHSA-hgg3-j5ph-4m9j: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: rockchip: Fix memory leak in rockchip_clk_register_pll()
If clk_register()↗2025-10-07