CVE-2022-49915

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel Use-After-Free in mISDN_register_device()

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mISDN: fix possible memory leak in mISDN_register_device() Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, add put_device() to give up the reference, so that the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount is 0. Set device class before put_device() to avoid null release() function WARN message in device_release().

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 6.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (27)
linux/Kernel 2.6.30 - 4.9.333linux
linux/Kernel 4.10.0 - 4.14.299linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.265linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.224linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.78linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.8linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.154linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.30
Linux/Linux 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e - 029d5b7688a2f3a86f2a3be5a6ba9cc968c80e41
Linux/Linux 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e - 080aabfb29b2ee9cbb8894a1d039651943d3773e
... and 17 more
Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026