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CVE-2022-50830 (GCVE-0-2022-50830)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:10 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:25
VLAI
Title
auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix potential memory leak in hd44780_remove()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix potential memory leak in hd44780_remove() hd44780_probe() allocates a memory chunk for hd with kzalloc() and makes "lcd->drvdata->hd44780" point to it. When we call hd44780_remove(), we should release all relevant memory and resource. But "lcd->drvdata ->hd44780" is not released, which will lead to a memory leak. We should release the "lcd->drvdata->hd44780" in hd44780_remove() to fix the memory leak bug.
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Assigner
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 718e05ed92ecac0d9d3954bcc8064527c3ce7565 , < 8311961a1724bfc64390c539dedc31e067a80315 (git)
Affected: 718e05ed92ecac0d9d3954bcc8064527c3ce7565 , < 6cd37f8232f5e169a723e1d5fbe3b2139c2ef763 (git)
Affected: 718e05ed92ecac0d9d3954bcc8064527c3ce7565 , < 5d407911e605702ffcc0e97a6db546592ab27dd0 (git)
Affected: 718e05ed92ecac0d9d3954bcc8064527c3ce7565 , < ddf75a86aba2cfb7ec4497e8692b60c8c8fe0ee7 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.100 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.18 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.5 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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