CVE-2022-50702 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 92.73%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 24
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vdpa_sim: fix possible memory leak in vdpasim_net_init() and vdpasim_blk_init()
Inject fault while probing module, if device_register() fails in
vdpasim_net_init() or vdpasim_blk_init(), but the refcount of kobject is
not decreased to 0, the name allocated in dev_set_name() is leaked.
Fix this by calling put_device(), so that name can be freed in
callback function kobject_cleanup().
(vdpa_sim_net)
unreferenced object 0xffff88…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxa3c06ae158dd6fa8336157c31d9234689d068d02 — 586e6fd7d581f987f7d0d2592edf0b26397e783e+4
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-p22c-78xj-4fp8: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vdpa_sim: fix possible memory leak in vdpasim_net_init() and vdpasim_blk_init()↗2025-12-24
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50702: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vdpa_sim: fix possible memory leak in vdpasim_net_init() and vdpasim_blk_init() In↗2025-12-24