CVE-2022-49370

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49370
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49370.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49370
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Published
2025-02-26T07:01:13Z
Modified
2025-10-01T20:16:13Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmisysfsregister_handle

kobjectinitandadd() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobjectinitandadd()

If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

Fix this issue by calling kobject_put().

References

Affected packages