CVE-2022-49836

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.19.267 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: siox: fix possible memory leak in siox_device_add() If device_register() returns error in siox_device_add(), the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(), and sdevice is freed in siox_device_release(), set it to null in error path.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 19.5%
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 (11)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.19.267
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/Kernel < 4.19.267linux
linux/Kernel < 5.4.225linux
linux/Kernel < 5.10.156linux
linux/Kernel < 5.15.80linux
linux/Kernel < 6.0.10linux

Timeline

Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026