CVE-2022-49915

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.9.333 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

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 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 15.4%
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 < 4.9.333
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/Kernel < 4.9.333linux
linux/Kernel < 4.14.299linux
linux/Kernel < 4.19.265linux
linux/Kernel < 5.4.224linux
linux/Kernel < 5.10.154linux
linux/Kernel < 5.15.78linux
linux/Kernel < 6.0.8linux

Timeline

Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026