CVE-2022-50848 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
7 documents6 sources
Severity
—N/A
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 84.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 30
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers: dio: fix possible memory leak in dio_init()
If device_register() returns error, the 'dev' and name needs be
freed. Add a release function, and then call put_device() in the
error path, so the name is freed in kobject_cleanup() and to the
'dev' is freed in release function.
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux2e4c77bea3d8b17d94f8ee382411f359b708560f — affe3cea6b3148fa66796a48640664822ceccd48+9
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-82rq-cj65-cv9p: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers: dio: fix possible memory leak in dio_init()
If device_register() return↗2025-12-30
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50848: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers: dio: fix possible memory leak in dio_init() If device_register() returns↗2025-12-30