CVE-2022-50537 (GCVE-0-2022-50537)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-07 15:21
Modified
2025-10-07 15:21
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: raspberrypi: fix possible memory leak in rpi_firmware_probe() In rpi_firmware_probe(), if mbox_request_channel() fails, the 'fw' will not be freed through rpi_firmware_delete(), fix this leak by calling kfree() in the error path.
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Linux Linux Version: d537afa08e156a0a72562e625506825c2776fcfa
Version: 60831f5ae6c713afceb6d29f40899ed112f36059
Version: 1e7c57355a3bc617fc220234889e49fe722a6305
Version: 1e7c57355a3bc617fc220234889e49fe722a6305
Version: 1e7c57355a3bc617fc220234889e49fe722a6305
Version: 1e7c57355a3bc617fc220234889e49fe722a6305
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