CVE-2022-50462
MEDIUMLinux Kernel < 4.9.337 - Memory Leak
Title source: ruleDescription
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)
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0001
EPSS Percentile
2.5%
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 (9)
linux/linux_kernel
< 4.9.337
linux/Kernel
< 4.9.337linux
linux/Kernel
< 4.14.303linux
linux/Kernel
< 4.19.270linux
linux/Kernel
< 5.4.229linux
linux/Kernel
< 5.10.163linux
linux/Kernel
< 5.15.86linux
linux/Kernel
< 6.0.16linux
linux/Kernel
< 6.1.2linux
Timeline
Published
Oct 01, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026