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Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-27 18:31 – Updated: 2025-04-15 15:30

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

EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe()

When devres_open_group() fails, it returns -ENOMEM without freeing memory allocated by edac_mc_alloc().

Call edac_mc_free() on the error handling path to avoid a memory leak.

[ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2022-49757 (GCVE-0-2022-49757)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 16:43 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:06

Title

EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe() When devres_open_group() fails, it returns -ENOMEM without freeing memory allocated by edac_mc_alloc(). Call edac_mc_free() on the error handling path to avoid a memory leak. [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-10-01 17:22 UTC

CWE

CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1b3e23ed8df87d77…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0db40e23b56d217ee…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d23f5d25264beb22…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/329fbd260352a7b9a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caffa7fed1397d139…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7863ef8a8f0fee96…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7a293658c20a7945…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 3.6 Unaffected: 0 , < 3.6 (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.305 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.272 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.231 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.166 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.91 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.9 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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