CVE-2022-50529

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
07/10/2025
Last modified:
05/02/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> test_firmware: fix memory leak in test_firmware_init()<br /> <br /> When misc_register() failed in test_firmware_init(), the memory pointed<br /> by test_fw_config-&gt;name is not released. The memory leak information is<br /> as follows:<br /> unreferenced object 0xffff88810a34cb00 (size 32):<br /> comm "insmod", pid 7952, jiffies 4294948236 (age 49.060s)<br /> hex dump (first 32 bytes):<br /> 74 65 73 74 2d 66 69 72 6d 77 61 72 65 2e 62 69 test-firmware.bi<br /> 6e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 n...............<br /> backtrace:<br /> [] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4b/0xc0<br /> [] kstrndup+0x46/0xc0<br /> [] __test_firmware_config_init+0x29/0x380 [test_firmware]<br /> [] 0xffffffffa040f068<br /> [] do_one_initcall+0x141/0x780<br /> [] do_init_module+0x1c3/0x630<br /> [] load_module+0x623e/0x76a0<br /> [] __do_sys_finit_module+0x181/0x240<br /> [] do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0<br /> [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.14 (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)