CVE-2022-50529

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel Use-After-Free in test_firmware_init()

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: test_firmware: fix memory leak in test_firmware_init() When misc_register() failed in test_firmware_init(), the memory pointed by test_fw_config->name is not released. The memory leak information is as follows: unreferenced object 0xffff88810a34cb00 (size 32): comm "insmod", pid 7952, jiffies 4294948236 (age 49.060s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 74 65 73 74 2d 66 69 72 6d 77 61 72 65 2e 62 69 test-firmware.bi 6e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 n............... backtrace: [<ffffffff81b21fcb>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4b/0xc0 [<ffffffff81affb96>] kstrndup+0x46/0xc0 [<ffffffffa0403a49>] __test_firmware_config_init+0x29/0x380 [test_firmware] [<ffffffffa040f068>] 0xffffffffa040f068 [<ffffffff81002c41>] do_one_initcall+0x141/0x780 [<ffffffff816a72c3>] do_init_module+0x1c3/0x630 [<ffffffff816adb9e>] load_module+0x623e/0x76a0 [<ffffffff816af471>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x181/0x240 [<ffffffff89978f99>] do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 [<ffffffff89a0008b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 4.0%
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 (26)
linux/Kernel 4.14.0 - 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 < 4.14
Linux/Linux 4.14
Linux/Linux 4.14.303 - 4.14.*
... and 16 more
Published Oct 07, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026