CVE-2022-50462

MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting

published October 1, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting

Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's

bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically,

it need be freed when module exiting, call put_device() to give up

reference, so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the

refcount hit to 0. The vpe_device is static, so remove kfree() from

vpe_device_release().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00163 · 5.2th percentile
Published
2025-10-01T11:45Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 OCT 11:45Z
    MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting
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