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CVE-2022-49224

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init kobject_init_and_add() takes…

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()： If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 4.9 before 4.9.311
from 4.10 before 4.14.276
from 4.15 before 4.19.238
from 4.20 before 5.4.189
from 5.5 before 5.10.110
from 5.11 before 5.15.33

Weakness classification

CWE-401

References