CVE-2022-50474

macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device()

published October 4, 2025

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

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

macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device()

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

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

needs to be freed when of_device_register() fails. Call put_device() to

give up the reference that's taken in device_initialize(), so that it

can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hits 0.

macio device is freed in macio_release_dev(), so the kfree() can be

removed.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00163 · 5.2th percentile
Published
2025-10-04T15:16Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 OCT 15:16Z
    macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device()
    cvelistv5