CVE-2022-49403

lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list

Medium · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list

Add allocated strarray to device's resource list. This is a must to

automatically release strarray when the device disappears.

Without this fix we have a memory leak in the few drivers which use

devm_kasprintf_strarray().

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
0.00258 · 16.5th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T02:12Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 02:12Z
    lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list
    cvelistv5