CVE-2022-50537 — 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 94.78%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 7

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: raspberrypi: fix possible memory leak in rpi_firmware_probe() In rpi_firmware_probe(), if mbox_request_channel() fails, the 'fw' will not be freed through rpi_firmware_delete(), fix this leak by calling kfree() in the error path.

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_kernel5.10.65 — 5.10.163+3
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.178-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxd537afa08e156a0a72562e625506825c2776fcfa — 62ac943eb2a9d655e431b9bc98ff6d7bd51a0e49+6
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.4-1 (bookworm)

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2022-50537: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: raspberrypi: fix possible memory leak in rpi_firmware_probe() In rpi_fir↗2025-10-07
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GHSA
GHSA-mrhj-7g92-rq8j: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: raspberrypi: fix possible memory leak in rpi_firmware_probe() In rpi_f↗2025-10-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: firmware: raspberrypi: fix possible memory leak in rpi_firmware_probe()↗2025-10-07
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Debian
CVE-2022-50537: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: r...↗2022
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