CVE-2026-46221 (GCVE-0-2026-46221)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-28 09:40 – Updated: 2026-06-14 18:03
VLAI
Title
EDAC/versalnet: Fix device name memory leak
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: EDAC/versalnet: Fix device name memory leak The device name allocated via kzalloc() in init_one_mc() is assigned to dev->init_name but never freed on the normal removal path. device_register() copies init_name and then sets dev->init_name to NULL, so the name pointer becomes unreachable from the device. Thus leaking memory. Use a stack-local char array instead of using kzalloc() for name.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: d5fe2fec6c40dda03df8cc9b4a97de0b7e39f984 , < 24d2912962d087ebff7c4984f8ac34a5f23c8dbf (git)
Affected: d5fe2fec6c40dda03df8cc9b4a97de0b7e39f984 , < b16033c8774f5fb4c0cb9b445a1dfc68f499ae6a (git)
Affected: d5fe2fec6c40dda03df8cc9b4a97de0b7e39f984 , < 8cf5dd235eff6008cb04c3d8064d2acfa90616f1 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.32 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.9 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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