CVE-2022-50462
Published: Oct 1, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, it need be freed when module exiting, call put_device() to give up reference, so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0. The vpe_device is static, so remove kfree() from vpe_device_release().
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e - < 170e9913c2ed5cfc37c0adf0fdbd368d2d8d8168affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e - < 9d180e0bb21c57bd6cca2adeb672d3b522e910b5affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e - < 851ae5640875f06494e40002cd503b11a634c6fbaffected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e - < b3325a443525e3b89151879b834519b21c5e3011affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e - < 48d42f4464d713fbdd79f334fdcd6e5be534cc67+4 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.30unaffected 0 - < 2.6.30unaffected 4.9.337 - <= 4.9.*unaffected 4.14.303 - <= 4.14.*unaffected 4.19.270 - <= 4.19.*+6 more versions |
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