CVE-2022-49835

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.9.334 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: fix potential memleak in 'add_widget_node' As 'kobject_add' may allocated memory for 'kobject->name' when return error. And in this function, if call 'kobject_add' failed didn't free kobject. So call 'kobject_put' to recycling resources.

References (8)

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02dea987ec1cac712c78e75d224ceb9bb73519ed

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a79f9568de08657fcdbc41d6fc4c0ca145a7a2b

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/455d99bd6baf19688048b6d42d9fa74eae27f93b

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7140d7aaf93da6a665b454f91bb4dc6b1de218bd

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90b7d055e2b5f39429f9a9e3815b48a48530ef28

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a5523f72bd2b0d66eef3d58810c6eb7b5ffc143

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b688a3ec235222d9a84e43a48a6f31acb95baf2d

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb0ac8d5e541224f599bc8e8f31a313faa4bf7b7

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0005

EPSS Percentile 15.6%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-401

Status published

Affected Products (12)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.9.334

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/Kernel < 4.9.334linux

linux/Kernel < 4.14.300linux

linux/Kernel < 4.19.267linux

linux/Kernel < 5.4.225linux

linux/Kernel < 5.10.155linux

linux/Kernel < 5.15.79linux

linux/Kernel < 6.0.9linux

Timeline

Published May 01, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026