CVE-2022-50349

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

16/09/2025

Last modified:

14/01/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media() If device_register() returns error in tifm_7xx1_switch_media(), name of kobject which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked. Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the reference initialized.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	2.6.22 (including)	4.9.337 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.10 (including)	4.14.303 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.15 (including)	4.19.270 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.229 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.163 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.86 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.0.16 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.1 (including)	6.1.2 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2022-50349

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools