CVE-2022-50349

medium

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd2c930cf6a5b9176382c15f9acb1996e76e25ad

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef843ee20576039126d34d6eb5f45d14c3e6ce18

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee2715faf7e7153f5142ed09aacfa89a64d45dcb

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d861b7d41b17942b337d4b87a70de7cd1dc44d4e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/848c45964ded537107e010aaf353aa30a0855387

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57c857353d5020bdec8284d9c0fee447484fe5e0

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35abbc8406cc39e72d3ce85f6e869555afe50d54

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bbb222a54ff501f77ce593d21b76b79c905045e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1695b1adcc3a7d985cd22fa3b55761edf3fab50d

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-16

Updated: 2025-09-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00033