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CVE-2022-50882 (GCVE-0-2022-50882)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:23 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:26
VLAI
Title
media: uvcvideo: Fix memory leak in uvc_gpio_parse
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: uvcvideo: Fix memory leak in uvc_gpio_parse Previously the unit buffer was allocated before checking the IRQ for privacy GPIO. In case of error, the unit buffer was leaked. Allocate the unit buffer after the IRQ to avoid it. Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1474639 ("Resource leak")
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 2886477ff98740cc3333cf785e4de0b1ff3d7a28 , < 6c5da92103bddd1f0c36cb69446ff7cae3043986 (git)
Affected: 2886477ff98740cc3333cf785e4de0b1ff3d7a28 , < deb8f32ae4b10a48c433f2da1b1159521ac24674 (git)
Affected: 2886477ff98740cc3333cf785e4de0b1ff3d7a28 , < 4a7ae8d982a89b3b43b36ec7d62a2e3d06ffa16e (git)
Affected: 2886477ff98740cc3333cf785e4de0b1ff3d7a28 , < f0f078457f18f10696888f8d0e6aba9deb9cde92 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.75 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.17 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.3 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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