CVE-2022-50431

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.9.332 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: aoa: i2sbus: fix possible memory leak in i2sbus_add_dev() dev_set_name() in soundbus_add_one() allocates memory for name, it need be freed when of_device_register() fails, call soundbus_dev_put() to give up the reference that hold in device_initialize(), so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0. And other resources are also freed in i2sbus_release_dev(), so it can return 0 directly.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.8%
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 (10)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.9.332
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/Kernel < 4.9.332linux
linux/Kernel < 4.14.298linux
linux/Kernel < 4.19.264linux
linux/Kernel < 5.4.223linux
linux/Kernel < 5.10.153linux
linux/Kernel < 5.15.77linux
linux/Kernel < 6.0.7linux

Timeline

Published Oct 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026