VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-50547

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.21%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-10-07
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: media: solo6x10: fix possible memory leak in solo_sysfs_init() If device_register() returns error in solo_sysfs_init(), the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup().

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-401

Primary references