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CVE-2022-49757 (GCVE-0-2022-49757)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 16:43 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:06
VLAI
Title
EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe() When devres_open_group() fails, it returns -ENOMEM without freeing memory allocated by edac_mc_alloc(). Call edac_mc_free() on the error handling path to avoid a memory leak. [ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 17:22 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a1b01edb274518c7da6d69b84e7558c092282aad , < f1b3e23ed8df87d779ee86ac37f379e79a24169a (git)
Affected: a1b01edb274518c7da6d69b84e7558c092282aad , < 0db40e23b56d217eebd385bebb64057ef764b2c7 (git)
Affected: a1b01edb274518c7da6d69b84e7558c092282aad , < 8d23f5d25264beb223ee79cdb530b88c237719fc (git)
Affected: a1b01edb274518c7da6d69b84e7558c092282aad , < 329fbd260352a7b9a83781d8b8bd96f95844a51f (git)
Affected: a1b01edb274518c7da6d69b84e7558c092282aad , < caffa7fed1397d1395052272c93900176de86557 (git)
Affected: a1b01edb274518c7da6d69b84e7558c092282aad , < b7863ef8a8f0fee96b4eb41211f4918c0e047253 (git)
Affected: a1b01edb274518c7da6d69b84e7558c092282aad , < e7a293658c20a7945014570e1921bf7d25d68a36 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.305 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.272 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.231 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.166 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.91 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.9 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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