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CVE-2022-50660 (GCVE-0-2022-50660)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 01:29 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:23
VLAI
Title
wifi: ipw2200: fix memory leak in ipw_wdev_init()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ipw2200: fix memory leak in ipw_wdev_init() In the error path of ipw_wdev_init(), exception value is returned, and the memory applied for in the function is not released. Also the memory is not released in ipw_pci_probe(). As a result, memory leakage occurs. So memory release needs to be added to the error path of ipw_wdev_init().
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a3caa99e6c68f466c13cfea74097f6fb01b45e25 , < 75d20ba9506eb90d92e660e04dd887ff1495fcc3 (git)
Affected: a3caa99e6c68f466c13cfea74097f6fb01b45e25 , < fb3517b92a45c8004ac26250ae041a24eb23fef1 (git)
Affected: a3caa99e6c68f466c13cfea74097f6fb01b45e25 , < 112c1af02b8f535baf42ef9d807aea963705ef15 (git)
Affected: a3caa99e6c68f466c13cfea74097f6fb01b45e25 , < 8a2eb9d9d0c1535bc8e22840193bff4cdcac878b (git)
Affected: a3caa99e6c68f466c13cfea74097f6fb01b45e25 , < 9424ea9d557ef41d86eb40b6349ae991c3dcff89 (git)
Affected: a3caa99e6c68f466c13cfea74097f6fb01b45e25 , < 62ec7e8bf42f1542f966dda687c654aae81718c8 (git)
Affected: a3caa99e6c68f466c13cfea74097f6fb01b45e25 , < 1f590fb3d14e5db3a9e06ee141b1685c429278ce (git)
Affected: a3caa99e6c68f466c13cfea74097f6fb01b45e25 , < 9fe21dc626117fb44a8eb393713a86a620128ce3 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.33
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.33 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.308 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.276 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.235 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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