VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-49915

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.20%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-05-01
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mISDN: fix possible memory leak in mISDN_register_device() Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, add put_device() to give up the reference, so that the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount is 0. Set device class before put_device() to avoid null release() function WARN message in device_release().

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-401
  • 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-401

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