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FKIE_CVE-2022-50427

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-01 12:15 - Updated: 2026-01-20 15:38

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: ac97: fix possible memory leak in snd_ac97_dev_register() If device_register() fails in snd_ac97_dev_register(), it should call put_device() to give up reference, or the name allocated in dev_set_name() is leaked.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f8e9a15c8ecf95057061d370a2dddaf1cee4aeb	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4881bda5ea05c8c240fc8afeaa928e2bc43f61fa	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fdf6f978c6b605ca0d67bf0e982b7a8fc0f4aab	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/758dbcc6fbf2286eff02743b093c70a18a407d66	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a602ec9d88f177dba78bc97fb1adecc7a71ff279	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfce73088682ef0770da951f51156c36a89be490	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c68b2e9ef246117f696e360bbdd2f5736b3a7127	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee8bf0946f62ef00e5db4b613a9f664ac567259a	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.1
linux	linux_kernel	6.1

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CVE-2022-50427 (GCVE-0-2022-50427)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:42 – Updated: 2025-10-01 11:42

Title

ALSA: ac97: fix possible memory leak in snd_ac97_dev_register()

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a602ec9d88f177dba…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f8e9a15c8ecf9505…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee8bf0946f62ef00e…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/758dbcc6fbf2286ef…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfce73088682ef077…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fdf6f978c6b605ca…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c68b2e9ef246117f6…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4881bda5ea05c8c24…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 0ca06a00e206b963587ac471e6d1c52bf33b9a18 , < a602ec9d88f177dba78bc97fb1adecc7a71ff279 (git)
Affected: 0ca06a00e206b963587ac471e6d1c52bf33b9a18 , < 0f8e9a15c8ecf95057061d370a2dddaf1cee4aeb (git)
Affected: 0ca06a00e206b963587ac471e6d1c52bf33b9a18 , < ee8bf0946f62ef00e5db4b613a9f664ac567259a (git)
Affected: 0ca06a00e206b963587ac471e6d1c52bf33b9a18 , < 758dbcc6fbf2286eff02743b093c70a18a407d66 (git)
Affected: 0ca06a00e206b963587ac471e6d1c52bf33b9a18 , < bfce73088682ef0770da951f51156c36a89be490 (git)
Affected: 0ca06a00e206b963587ac471e6d1c52bf33b9a18 , < 4fdf6f978c6b605ca0d67bf0e982b7a8fc0f4aab (git)
Affected: 0ca06a00e206b963587ac471e6d1c52bf33b9a18 , < c68b2e9ef246117f696e360bbdd2f5736b3a7127 (git)
Affected: 0ca06a00e206b963587ac471e6d1c52bf33b9a18 , < 4881bda5ea05c8c240fc8afeaa928e2bc43f61fa (git)

Linux

Affected: 2.6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.9.332 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.298 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.264 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.223 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.153 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.77 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.7 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2022-50427 (GCVE-0-2022-50427)

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