CVE-2022-50557 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
6 documents5 sources
Severity
—N/A
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 93.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 22
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pinctrl: thunderbay: fix possible memory leak in thunderbay_build_functions()
The thunderbay_add_functions() will free memory of thunderbay_funcs
when everything is ok, but thunderbay_funcs will not be freed when
thunderbay_add_functions() fails, then there will be a memory leak,
so we need to add kfree() when thunderbay_add_functions() fails to
fix it.
In addition, doing some cleaner works, moving kfree(funcs) from
thunderba…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux12422af8194df85243d68b11f8783de9d01e58dc — 3650943bab29d03ef147290451237713ed1942cd+3
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2022-50557: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: thunderbay: fix possible memory leak in thunderbay_build_functions() The↗2025-10-22
GHSA▶
GHSA-hjpq-cx8h-9x2f: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pinctrl: thunderbay: fix possible memory leak in thunderbay_build_functions()
Th↗2025-10-22