CVE-2022-50523 (GCVE-0-2022-50523)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-07 15:19 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:21
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
clk: rockchip: Fix memory leak in rockchip_clk_register_pll()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: rockchip: Fix memory leak in rockchip_clk_register_pll()
If clk_register() fails, @pll->rate_table may have allocated memory by
kmemdup(), so it needs to be freed, otherwise will cause memory leak
issue, this patch fixes it.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
9 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
90c590254051f511299538c158e12fdad41ce163 , < 20201c3a0a32f127fa4bdf379d6ac01c2978702d
(git)
Affected: 90c590254051f511299538c158e12fdad41ce163 , < 86e1e080ad14c5fb6c14a5f0eb530b1b38cbc968 (git) Affected: 90c590254051f511299538c158e12fdad41ce163 , < f02c1d8dc8d880cbaaf9094b4f396fe868ee23ff (git) Affected: 90c590254051f511299538c158e12fdad41ce163 , < 26b94635f1c84d7f6cb482179125cb17e59c90a5 (git) Affected: 90c590254051f511299538c158e12fdad41ce163 , < f4d70c139d313948e02360304a6cbcd3a4f5deb5 (git) Affected: 90c590254051f511299538c158e12fdad41ce163 , < 5b0a1f1247cd42ac5e0d369f8dbb58762692edee (git) Affected: 90c590254051f511299538c158e12fdad41ce163 , < dcd4ba068b194c6ef0071491aa3f12bec8c14d5b (git) Affected: 90c590254051f511299538c158e12fdad41ce163 , < f2ffb8653ea85ae39ce44347751fcc4c3e41f6bb (git) Affected: 90c590254051f511299538c158e12fdad41ce163 , < 739a6a6bbdb793bd57938cb24aa5a6df89983546 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
3.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.17 (semver) Unaffected: 4.9.337 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.303 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.270 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.229 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.163 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.86 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.0.16 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.2 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2022/cve-2022-50523.json",
"version": "3"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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