Tracker / CVE-2022-50521
CVE-2022-50521
Medium 5.5
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: mxm-wmi: fix memleak in mxm_wmi_call_mx[ds|mx]() The ACPI buffer memory (out.pointer) returned by wmi_evaluate_method() is not freed after the call, so it leads to memory leak. The method results in ACPI buffer is not used, so just pass NULL to wmi_evaluate_method() which fixes the memory leak.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.0 → 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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