CVE-2022-49949
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 5.19-5.19.8 - Use-After-Free in Firmware Upload
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware_loader: Fix memory leak in firmware upload In the case of firmware-upload, an instance of struct fw_upload is allocated in firmware_upload_register(). This data needs to be freed in fw_dev_release(). Create a new fw_upload_free() function in sysfs_upload.c to handle the firmware-upload specific memory frees and incorporate the missing kfree call for the fw_upload structure.
References (2)
Core 2
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0018
EPSS Percentile
7.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-401
Status
published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel
5.19.0 - 5.19.8linux
Linux/Linux
< 5.19
Linux/Linux
5.19
Linux/Linux
5.19.8 - 5.19.*
Linux/Linux
6.0
Linux/Linux
97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 - 789bba82f63c3e81dce426ba457fc7905b30ac6e
Linux/Linux
97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 - baf92485d111be828e1ab84a995515b604b938e5
linux/linux_kernel
6.0 rc1 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel
5.19 - 5.19.8
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026