CVE-2022-50724 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 89.30%
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:
regulator: core: fix resource leak in regulator_register()
I got some resource leak reports while doing fault injection test:
OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 100,
of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry:
attach overlay node /i2c/pmic@64/regulators/buck1
unreferenced object 0xffff88810deea000 (size 512):
comm "490-i2c-rt5190a", pid 253, jiffies 4294859840 (age 5061.046s)
hex dump (fi…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux0120ec32a7774b5061ced1a9a7ff833edd8b4cb6 — 35593d60b1622834984c43add7646d4069671aa9+11
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2022-50724: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: regulator: core: fix resource leak in regulator_register() I got some resource lea↗2025-12-24
GHSA▶
GHSA-wr64-83w3-wr39: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
regulator: core: fix resource leak in regulator_register()
I got some resource l↗2025-12-24