CVE-2022-49370

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49370
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49370.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49370
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-02-26T02:11:13.176Z
Modified
2026-03-12T03:25:05.978411Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmi_sysfs_register_handle
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmisysfsregister_handle

kobjectinitandadd() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobjectinitandadd()

If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

Fix this issue by calling kobject_put().

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49370.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
948af1f0bbc8526448e8cbe3f8d3bf211bdf5181
Fixed
a9bfb37d6ba7c376b0d53337a4c5f5ff324bd725
Fixed
ed38d04342dfbe9e5aca745c8b5eb4188a74f0ef
Fixed
c66cc3c62870a27ea8f060a7e4c1ad8d26dd3f0d
Fixed
a724634b2a49f6ff0177a9e19a5a92fc1545e1b7
Fixed
985706bd3bbeffc8737bc05965ca8d24837bc7db
Fixed
fdffa4ad8f6bf1ece877edfb807f2b2c729d8578
Fixed
3ba359ebe914ac3f8c6c832b28007c14c39d3766
Fixed
ec752973aa721ee281d5441e497364637c626c7b
Fixed
660ba678f9998aca6db74f2dd912fa5124f0fa31

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49370.json"