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FKIE_CVE-2022-50809

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-30 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:24

Severity

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xhci: dbc: Fix memory leak in xhci_alloc_dbc() If DbC is already in use, then the allocated memory for the xhci_dbc struct doesn't get freed before returning NULL, which leads to a memleak.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/103b459590e1eb4d80b02761eb36c7cae1d9b58e
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/116d6a6964986ea7eb516daa36128d270f1f248d
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69e67c804d09a6b1bcda1f4f242f151f813eeb4a
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d591b32e519603524a35b172156db71df9116902

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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  "vulnStatus": "Deferred"
}

CVE-2022-50809 (GCVE-0-2022-50809)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:08 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:25

Title

xhci: dbc: Fix memory leak in xhci_alloc_dbc()

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/103b459590e1eb4d8…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/116d6a6964986ea7e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69e67c804d09a6b1b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d591b32e519603524…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: d7afb4a13f6c6ee7df7d0bfc67b4ef19ece6d802 , < 103b459590e1eb4d80b02761eb36c7cae1d9b58e (git) Affected: 534675942e901959b5d8dc11ea526c4e48817d8e , < 116d6a6964986ea7eb516daa36128d270f1f248d (git) Affected: 534675942e901959b5d8dc11ea526c4e48817d8e , < 69e67c804d09a6b1bcda1f4f242f151f813eeb4a (git) Affected: 534675942e901959b5d8dc11ea526c4e48817d8e , < d591b32e519603524a35b172156db71df9116902 (git) Affected: 5.15.58 , < 5.15.75 (semver)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.18 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.75 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.19.17 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.0.3 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2022-50809 (GCVE-0-2022-50809)

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