CVE-2022-50349

misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media()

Medium · published September 16, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media()

If device_register() returns error in tifm_7xx1_switch_media(),

name of kobject which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add()

is leaked.

Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even

if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the

reference initialized.

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
0.00163 · 5.2th percentile
Published
2025-09-16T16:11Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 SEP 16:11Z
    misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media()
    cvelistv5