CVE-2022-50734 — Linux vulnerability
7 documents6 sources
Severity
5.3MEDIUM
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:
nvmem: core: Fix memleak in nvmem_register()
dev_set_name will alloc memory for nvmem->dev.kobj.name in
nvmem_register, when nvmem_validate_keepouts failed, nvmem's
memory will be freed and return, but nobody will free memory
for nvmem->dev.kobj.name, there will be memleak, so moving
nvmem_validate_keepouts() after device_register() and let
the device core deal with cleaning name in error cases.
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxde0534df93474f268486c486ea7e01b44a478026 — 9391cc3a787a58aa224a6440d7f244d780ba2896+6
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2022-50734: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmem: core: Fix memleak in nvmem_register() dev_set_name will alloc memory for nv↗2025-12-24
GHSA▶
GHSA-p8g3-3wvp-3jxw: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvmem: core: Fix memleak in nvmem_register()
dev_set_name will alloc memory for↗2025-12-24