DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50331

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50331
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50331.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50331
Upstream
Published
2025-09-15T15:15:45Z
Modified
2025-09-25T03:24:07.470233Z
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wwanhwsim: fix possible memory leak in wwanhwsimdevnew() Inject fault while probing module, if deviceregister() fails, but the refcount of kobject is not decreased to 0, the name allocated in devsetname() is leaked. Fix this by calling putdevice(), so that name can be freed in callback function kobjectcleanup(). unreferenced object 0xffff88810152ad20 (size 8): comm "modprobe", pid 252, jiffies 4294849206 (age 22.713s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 68 77 73 69 6d 30 00 ff hwsim0.. backtrace: [<000000009c3504ed>] _kmallocnodetrackcaller+0x44/0x1b0 [<00000000c0228a5e>] kvasprintf+0xb5/0x140 [<00000000cff8c21f>] kvasprintfconst+0x55/0x180 [<0000000055a1e073>] kobjectsetnamevargs+0x56/0x150 [<000000000a80b139>] devset_name+0xab/0xe0

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}