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CVE-2022-50349

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media() If device_register() returns error in tifm_7xx1_switch_media(), name of kobject which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked. Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the reference initialized.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 2.6.22 → 4.9.337
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.303
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.270
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.229
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.86
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.0.16
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.163
linux linux_kernel · 6.1 → 6.1.2

Analysis

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