CVE-2022-50349

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50349
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50349.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50349
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-09-16T16:11:41.340Z
Modified
2026-04-11T12:44:56.917887Z
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
misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media()
Details

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

misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm7xx1switch_media()

If deviceregister() returns error in tifm7xx1switchmedia(), name of kobject which is allocated in devsetname() called in device_add() is leaked.

Never directly free @dev after calling deviceregister(), even if it returned an error! Always use putdevice() to give up the reference initialized.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50349.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
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
2428a8fe2261e901e058d9ea8b6ed7e1b4268b79
Fixed
2bbb222a54ff501f77ce593d21b76b79c905045e
Fixed
d861b7d41b17942b337d4b87a70de7cd1dc44d4e
Fixed
1695b1adcc3a7d985cd22fa3b55761edf3fab50d
Fixed
ee2715faf7e7153f5142ed09aacfa89a64d45dcb
Fixed
57c857353d5020bdec8284d9c0fee447484fe5e0
Fixed
848c45964ded537107e010aaf353aa30a0855387
Fixed
35abbc8406cc39e72d3ce85f6e869555afe50d54
Fixed
ef843ee20576039126d34d6eb5f45d14c3e6ce18
Fixed
fd2c930cf6a5b9176382c15f9acb1996e76e25ad

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50349.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.6.22
Fixed
4.9.337
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.10.0
Fixed
4.14.303
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.15.0
Fixed
4.19.270
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.229
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.163
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.86
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.0.16
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.1.0
Fixed
6.1.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50349.json"