CVE-2022-50734 PUBLISHED

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmem: core: Fix memleak in nvmem_register() dev_set_name will alloc memory for nvmem->dev.kobj.name in nvmem_register, when nvmem_validate_keepouts failed, nvmem's memory will be freed and return, but nobody will free memory for nvmem->dev.kobj.name, there will be memleak, so moving nvmem_validate_keepouts() after device_register() and let the device core deal with cleaning name in error cases.

EPSS 0.03% · 7.2th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.03%
7.2th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
linuxlinux_kernel5.15, 5.15, 5.15
LinuxLinux5.15, 0, 5.15.75

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