CVE-2022-50809

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xhci: dbc: Fix memory leak in xhci_alloc_dbc() If DbC is already in use, then the allocated memory for the xhci_dbc struct doesn't get freed before returning NULL, which leads to a memleak.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d591b32e519603524a35b172156db71df9116902

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69e67c804d09a6b1bcda1f4f242f151f813eeb4a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/116d6a6964986ea7eb516daa36128d270f1f248d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/103b459590e1eb4d80b02761eb36c7cae1d9b58e

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-30

Updated: 2025-12-31

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.2

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018