CVE-2022-50462

MEDIUM EPSS 4.5%
Published Oct 1, 20259mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
5.5 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Oct 1, 2025 9mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, it need be freed when module exiting, call put_device() to give up reference, so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0. The vpe_device is static, so remove kfree() from vpe_device_release().

CVSS Details

Base Score
5.5
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
4.5% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-401

Affected Products 8

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel*≥2.6.30  –  <4.9.337
linuxlinux_kernel*≥4.10  –  <4.14.303
linuxlinux_kernel*≥4.15  –  <4.19.270
linuxlinux_kernel*≥4.20  –  <5.4.229
linuxlinux_kernel*≥5.5  –  <5.10.163
linuxlinux_kernel*≥5.11  –  <5.15.86
linuxlinux_kernel*≥5.16  –  <6.0.16
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.1  –  <6.1.2

References 9

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/170e9913c2ed5cfc37c0adf0fdbd368d2d8d8168
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48d42f4464d713fbdd79f334fdcd6e5be534cc67
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5822e8cc84ee37338ab0bdc3124f6eec04dc232d
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/851ae5640875f06494e40002cd503b11a634c6fb
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d180e0bb21c57bd6cca2adeb672d3b522e910b5
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab3d47c1fd0202821abd473ca87580faafd47847
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b191dde84e40624d5577f64db0ec922c5c0ec57c
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3325a443525e3b89151879b834519b21c5e3011
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e820a8192ff68570100347855b567512aec43819
    Patch

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/170e9913c2ed5cfc37c0adf0fdbd368d2d8d8168
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48d42f4464d713fbdd79f334fdcd6e5be534cc67
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5822e8cc84ee37338ab0bdc3124f6eec04dc232d
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/851ae5640875f06494e40002cd503b11a634c6fb
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d180e0bb21c57bd6cca2adeb672d3b522e910b5
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab3d47c1fd0202821abd473ca87580faafd47847
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b191dde84e40624d5577f64db0ec922c5c0ec57c
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3325a443525e3b89151879b834519b21c5e3011
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e820a8192ff68570100347855b567512aec43819
    Patch