CVE-2022-50537

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.10.163 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: raspberrypi: fix possible memory leak in rpi_firmware_probe() In rpi_firmware_probe(), if mbox_request_channel() fails, the 'fw' will not be freed through rpi_firmware_delete(), fix this leak by calling kfree() in the error path.

References (6)

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62ac943eb2a9d655e431b9bc98ff6d7bd51a0e49

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6757dd2193fe18c5c5fe3050e7f2ff9dcbd1ff34

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71d2abab374f707ab8ac8dcef191fd2b3b67b8bd

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b51161696e803fd5f9ad55b20a64c2df313f95c

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b308fdedef095aac14569f810d46edf773ea7d1e

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d34742245e4366579f9a80f8cfe4a63248e838e0

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0001

EPSS Percentile 2.4%

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 (5)

linux/linux_kernel < 5.10.163

linux/Kernel < 5.10.163linux

linux/Kernel < 5.15.86linux

linux/Kernel < 6.0.16linux

linux/Kernel < 6.1.2linux

Timeline

Published Oct 07, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026