CVE-2022-50830

Linux Kernel 5.11-5.14, 5.16-6.1.17, 6.2-6.2.4 - Memory Leak in HD44780 LCD Driver

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix potential memory leak in hd44780_remove() hd44780_probe() allocates a memory chunk for hd with kzalloc() and makes "lcd->drvdata->hd44780" point to it. When we call hd44780_remove(), we should release all relevant memory and resource. But "lcd->drvdata ->hd44780" is not released, which will lead to a memory leak. We should release the "lcd->drvdata->hd44780" in hd44780_remove() to fix the memory leak bug.

Scores

EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.8%

Details

Status published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.100linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.18linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.2.5linux
Linux/Linux < 5.11
Linux/Linux 5.11
Linux/Linux 5.15.100 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.18 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.2.5 - 6.2.*
Linux/Linux 6.3
Linux/Linux 718e05ed92ecac0d9d3954bcc8064527c3ce7565 - 5d407911e605702ffcc0e97a6db546592ab27dd0
... and 3 more
Published Dec 30, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026