CVE-2022-50431
MEDIUMLinux Kernel < 4.9.332 - Memory Leak
Title source: ruleDescription
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.
References (8)
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