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CVE-2022-49971 (GCVE-0-2022-49971)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:00 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:10
VLAI
Title
drm/amd/pm: Fix a potential gpu_metrics_table memory leak
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/pm: Fix a potential gpu_metrics_table memory leak Memory is allocated for gpu_metrics_table in smu_v13_0_4_init_smc_tables(), but not freed in smu_v13_0_4_fini_smc_tables(). This may cause memory leaks, fix it.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 55c894945bda8cbf8a57d97c0514b282e3960cc0 , < 4b25bdb54578f3b96ff055e5d27bc1cb82950e51 (git)
Affected: 55c894945bda8cbf8a57d97c0514b282e3960cc0 , < 5afb76522a0af0513b6dc01f84128a73206b051b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.7 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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