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CVE-2022-49949

firmware_loader: Fix memory leak in firmware upload

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
Linux

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware_loader: Fix memory leak in firmware upload In the case of firmware-upload, an instance of struct fw_upload is allocated in firmware_upload_register(). This data needs to be freed in fw_dev_release(). Create a new fw_upload_free() function in sysfs_upload.c to handle the firmware-upload specific memory frees and incorporate the missing kfree call for the fw_upload structure.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 to < baf92485d111be828e1ab84a995515b604b938e5affected
  • 97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 to < 789bba82f63c3e81dce426ba457fc7905b30ac6eaffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 5.19affected
  • 0 to < 5.19unaffected
  • 5.19.8 to ≤ 5.19.*unaffected
  • 6.0 to ≤ *unaffected

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