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CVE-2022-50449 (GCVE-0-2022-50449)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:45 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:19
VLAI
Title
clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_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)
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: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < 7b738276a596fa101d320591e9fa84ea0fc3f713 (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < 2e8dc0626fe86ae08914478dec1419618c557bc0 (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < a00b4e0fa27317957536abf8f5d6a96d6cb9d9be (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < da13355bb9961316d124f94dfc7a1385d0fb035a (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < 4e501a31af8efa593a2f003637b56d00b75dca23 (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < 4887ec922e407b4feaf060c7b099482a5c52dee3 (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < a35323218ff32782d051d2643912311a22e07b6a (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < 5174e5b0d1b669a489524192b6adcbb3c54ebc72 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.12 (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)
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      "initial_release_date": "2022-01-01T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "274",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "kernel: clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll()",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2022/cve-2022-50449.json",
      "version": "3"
    },
    "suse_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "low",
      "current_release_date": "2026-08-31T01:23:29Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2022-50449",
      "id": "CVE-2022-50449",
      "initial_release_date": "2025-10-01T23:32:30Z",
      "product_status:known_affected": "534",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "145",
      "product_status:recommended": "206",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2022-50449",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2022-50449.json",
      "version": "32"
    }
  }
}



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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.

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  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
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