CVE-2022-50830

auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix potential memory leak in hd44780_remove()

published December 30, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix potential memory leak in hd44780_remove()

hd44780_probe() allocates a memory chunk for hd with kzalloc() and

makes "lcd->drvdata->hd44780" point to it. When we call hd44780_remove(),

we should release all relevant memory and resource. But "lcd->drvdata

->hd44780" is not released, which will lead to a memory leak.

We should release the "lcd->drvdata->hd44780" in hd44780_remove() to fix

the memory leak bug.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00244 · 14.7th percentile
Published
2025-12-30T12:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 DEC 12:10Z
    auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix potential memory leak in hd44780_remove()
    cvelistv5