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CVE-2022-50669 (GCVE-0-2022-50669)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 01:29 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:23
VLAI
Title
misc: ocxl: fix possible name leak in ocxl_file_register_afu()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: ocxl: fix possible name leak in ocxl_file_register_afu() If device_register() returns error in ocxl_file_register_afu(), the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(), and info is freed in info_release().
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 75ca758adbafc81804c39b2c200ecdc819a6c042 , < 0cd05062371a49774e8a45258bdedf0bd6d3d327 (git)
Affected: 75ca758adbafc81804c39b2c200ecdc819a6c042 , < 7525741cb302a1672b8c3a5edb2a08e4229b5c7c (git)
Affected: 75ca758adbafc81804c39b2c200ecdc819a6c042 , < 3299983a6bf628249ac650908e62d12de959341e (git)
Affected: 75ca758adbafc81804c39b2c200ecdc819a6c042 , < 557b7de055d1e230ddb6664c29d26917b8db9143 (git)
Affected: 75ca758adbafc81804c39b2c200ecdc819a6c042 , < 2fce8b3583d1641a1716486f408478b58e96ec91 (git)
Affected: 75ca758adbafc81804c39b2c200ecdc819a6c042 , < a4cb1004aeed2ab893a058fad00a5b41a12c4691 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.2 (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)
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