CVE-2022-50288
Published: Sep 15, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: qlcnic: prevent ->dcb use-after-free on qlcnic_dcb_enable() failure adapter->dcb would get silently freed inside qlcnic_dcb_enable() in case qlcnic_dcb_attach() would return an error, which always happens under OOM conditions. This would lead to use-after-free because both of the existing callers invoke qlcnic_dcb_get_info() on the obtained pointer, which is potentially freed at that point. Propagate errors from qlcnic_dcb_enable(), and instead free the dcb pointer at callsite using qlcnic_dcb_free(). This also removes the now unused qlcnic_clear_dcb_ops() helper, which was a simple wrapper around kfree() also causing memory leaks for partially initialized dcb. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static analysis tool.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 3c44bba1d270cb1620b4fe76786d0968118cb86b - < 36999236f0b12d5de21a6f40e93b570727b9ceb2affected 3c44bba1d270cb1620b4fe76786d0968118cb86b - < d12a7510293d3370b234b0b7c5eda33e58786768affected 3c44bba1d270cb1620b4fe76786d0968118cb86b - < 8f97eeb02a553cdc78c83a0596448a370e1518c4affected 3c44bba1d270cb1620b4fe76786d0968118cb86b - < 513787ff9a331b461115e8a145a983d650a84fcbaffected 3c44bba1d270cb1620b4fe76786d0968118cb86b - < 95df720e64a6409d8152827a776c43f615e3321a+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.14unaffected 0 - < 3.14unaffected 4.14.303 - <= 4.14.*unaffected 4.19.270 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.229 - <= 5.4.*+5 more versions |
References
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