ghsa-jmh8-v835-2439
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-10-22 18:30
Modified
2025-10-22 18:30
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dmaengine: idxd: Fix the error handling path in idxd_cdev_register()

If a call to alloc_chrdev_region() fails, the already allocated resources are leaking.

Add the needed error handling path to fix the leak.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-49422"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-02-26T07:01:18Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndmaengine: idxd: Fix the error handling path in idxd_cdev_register()\n\nIf a call to alloc_chrdev_region() fails, the already allocated resources\nare leaking.\n\nAdd the needed error handling path to fix the leak.",
  "id": "GHSA-jmh8-v835-2439",
  "modified": "2025-10-22T18:30:30Z",
  "published": "2025-10-22T18:30:30Z",
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}


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