CVE-2022-50449: clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll()

CVE-2022-50449 PUBLISHED

clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll()

Reported by linux · Published October 1, 2025

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll() If clk_register() fails, @pll->rate_table may have allocated memory by kmemdup(), so it needs to be freed, otherwise will cause memory leak issue, this patch fixes it.

EPSS 0.17% · 6.0th percentile

Fixed versions

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Package	Ecosystem	Fixed in
linux_kernel	linux	6.1.2, 6.0.16, 5.15.86, 5.10.163, 5.4.229, 4.19.270, 4.14.303

Risk scores

EPSS Score

0.17%

6.0th percentile

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22, 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22, 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22
Linux	Linux	3.12, 0, 4.14.303
linux	linux_kernel	3.12, 3.12, 3.12
Linux	Linux	3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22, 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22, 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22

Timeline

Oct 1, 2025 EPSS Score (30 in total, the first dated here)
Oct 1, 2025 CVE Published
Oct 21, 2025 PoC Published
Jun 2, 2026 Security Advisory (43 in total, the first dated here)
Oct 7, 2026 Distribution Patch (33 in total, the first dated here)

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