CVE-2022-49817 (GCVE-0-2022-49817)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 14:09 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:07
VLAI
Title
net: mhi: Fix memory leak in mhi_net_dellink()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mhi: Fix memory leak in mhi_net_dellink() MHI driver registers network device without setting the needs_free_netdev flag, and does NOT call free_netdev() when unregisters network device, which causes a memory leak. This patch calls free_netdev() to fix it since netdev_priv is used after unregister.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 13adac032982c61bb590669e8e87e51558917ca1 , < 88da008e5e2f9753726ea5a51ef2eb144e9de927 (git)
Affected: 13adac032982c61bb590669e8e87e51558917ca1 , < 25a270343b0f16e1f6e65f541a15975a35e238ff (git)
Affected: 13adac032982c61bb590669e8e87e51558917ca1 , < f7c125bd79f50ec6094761090be81d02726ec6f4 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.80 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.10 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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