medium5.5
CVE-2022-49284
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: syscfg: Fix memleak on registration failure in cscfg_create_device device_regist…
Impact
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: syscfg: Fix memleak on registration failure in cscfg_create_device device_register() calls device_initialize(), according to doc of device_initialize: Use put_device() to give up your reference instead of freeing * @dev directly once you have called this function. To prevent potential memleak, use put_device() for error handling.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | from 5.15 before 5.15.33 from 5.16 before 5.16.19 from 5.17 before 5.17.2 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/412225b32986d5b11c3c1ad9234c50a3f5c52c76
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a529af1f5a5c096f3e18f0d5a32cfcc3d82df1ec
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c61e2fc87f24cae4701f352fe9ecd4c5c143106c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfa5dbcdd7aece76f3415284569f2f384aff0253