CVE-2022-50278 (GCVE-0-2022-50278)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-15 14:21
Modified
2025-09-15 14:21
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PNP: fix name memory leak in pnp_alloc_dev() After commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, move dev_set_name() after pnp_add_id() to avoid memory leak.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/110d7b0325c55ff3620073ba4201845f59e22ebf
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f50c7497a5f89de0c31f2edf086af41ff834320
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/290dd73b943c95c006df973257076ff163adf4d0
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/693a0c13c1f0c0fcaa1e38cb806cc0789bd415aa
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81b024df4755e6bb6993b786584eca6eabbb9791
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbcf772216aa237036cc3ae3158288d0a95aaf4d
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c12b314bb23dc0c83e03402cc84574700947e3b2
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dac87e295cddc8ab316cff14ab2071b5221d84fa
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea77b4b761cd75e5456f677311babfa0418f289a
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Linux Linux Version: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e
Version: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e
Version: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e
Version: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e
Version: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e
Version: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e
Version: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e
Version: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e
Version: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e
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