CVE-2022-49817

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
01/05/2025
Last modified:
02/05/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> net: mhi: Fix memory leak in mhi_net_dellink()<br /> <br /> MHI driver registers network device without setting the<br /> needs_free_netdev flag, and does NOT call free_netdev() when<br /> unregisters network device, which causes a memory leak.<br /> <br /> This patch calls free_netdev() to fix it since netdev_priv<br /> is used after unregister.

Impact