CVE-2022-49191

mxser: fix xmit_buf leak in activate when LSR == 0xff

published February 26, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mxser: fix xmit_buf leak in activate when LSR == 0xff

When LSR is 0xff in ->activate() (rather unlike), we return an error.

Provided ->shutdown() is not called when ->activate() fails, nothing

actually frees the buffer in this case.

Fix this by properly freeing the buffer in a designated label. We jump

there also from the "!info->type" if now too.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00276 · 18.9th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T01:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 01:55Z
    mxser: fix xmit_buf leak in activate when LSR == 0xff
    cvelistv5