CVE-2022-49284

coresight: syscfg: Fix memleak on registration failure in cscfg_create_device

Medium · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

coresight: syscfg: Fix memleak on registration failure in cscfg_create_device

device_register() calls device_initialize(),

according to doc of device_initialize:

Use put_device() to give up your reference instead of freeing

* @dev directly once you have called this function.

To prevent potential memleak, use put_device() for error handling.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00261 · 16.9th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T01:56Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 01:56Z
    coresight: syscfg: Fix memleak on registration failure in cscfg_create_device
    cvelistv5