CVE-2022-50672 — Incorrect Check of Function Return Value in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 85.68%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mailbox: zynq-ipi: fix error handling while device_register() fails
If device_register() fails, it has two issues:
1. The name allocated by dev_set_name() is leaked.
2. The parent of device is not NULL, device_unregister() is called
in zynqmp_ipi_free_mboxes(), it will lead a kernel crash because
of removing not added device.
Call put_device() to give up the reference, so the name is freed in
kobject_cleanup(). Add device reg…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux4981b82ba2ff87df6a711fcd7a233c615df5fc79 — b3a5c76f61e2b380e29dfc6705854ca1ee85501d+6
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2022-50672: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mailbox: zynq-ipi: fix error handling while device_register() fails If device_regi↗2025-12-09
GHSA▶
GHSA-fc53-63px-vp2j: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mailbox: zynq-ipi: fix error handling while device_register() fails
If device_re↗2025-12-09