CVE-2022-49949
Published: Jun 18, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware_loader: Fix memory leak in firmware upload In the case of firmware-upload, an instance of struct fw_upload is allocated in firmware_upload_register(). This data needs to be freed in fw_dev_release(). Create a new fw_upload_free() function in sysfs_upload.c to handle the firmware-upload specific memory frees and incorporate the missing kfree call for the fw_upload structure.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 - < baf92485d111be828e1ab84a995515b604b938e5affected 97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 - < 789bba82f63c3e81dce426ba457fc7905b30ac6e |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.19unaffected 0 - < 5.19unaffected 5.19.8 - <= 5.19.*unaffected 6.0 - <= * |
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