CVE-2022-50848

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
30/12/2025
Last modified:
31/12/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> drivers: dio: fix possible memory leak in dio_init()<br /> <br /> If device_register() returns error, the &amp;#39;dev&amp;#39; and name needs be<br /> freed. Add a release function, and then call put_device() in the<br /> error path, so the name is freed in kobject_cleanup() and to the<br /> &amp;#39;dev&amp;#39; is freed in release function.

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