CVE-2022-50462
MEDIUMLinux Kernel - Use-After-Free in MIPS VPE-MT Module Exit
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, it need be freed when module exiting, call put_device() to give up reference, so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0. The vpe_device is static, so remove kfree() from vpe_device_release().
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0015
EPSS Percentile
4.1%
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 (29)
linux/Kernel
2.6.30 - 4.9.337linux
linux/Kernel
4.10.0 - 4.14.303linux
linux/Kernel
4.15.0 - 4.19.270linux
linux/Kernel
4.20.0 - 5.4.229linux
linux/Kernel
5.11.0 - 5.15.86linux
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 6.0.16linux
linux/Kernel
5.5.0 - 5.10.163linux
linux/Kernel
6.1.0 - 6.1.2linux
Linux/Linux
< 2.6.30
Linux/Linux
1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e - 170e9913c2ed5cfc37c0adf0fdbd368d2d8d8168
... and 19 more
Published
Oct 01, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026