CVE-2022-49224 (GCVE-0-2022-49224)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 01:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 18:55
VLAI
Title
power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()： If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 19:46 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd , < 31cdf7897dba1f096b74f69d840f0575b8cdb9ae (git)
Affected: 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd , < 19aa3c98ed7b2616e105946cec804f897837ab84 (git)
Affected: 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd , < db3a61ef8e6aef3b888baa6a85926c2230c2cc56 (git)
Affected: 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd , < 41ed61364285ff38bbbe9ca8a45c8372ba72921d (git)
Affected: 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd , < 879356a6a05559582b0a7895d86d2d4359745c08 (git)
Affected: 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd , < ffb8e92b4cef92bd25563cf3d8b4489eb22bc61f (git)
Affected: 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd , < 261041097ab3470f1120b7733cbf472712304d1e (git)
Affected: 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd , < c32f6b6196b6efc1c68990dfeaac36fb8eb3b8e1 (git)
Affected: 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd , < 6a4760463dbc6b603690938c468839985189ce0a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.9.311 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.276 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.238 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.189 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.110 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.33 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16.19 , ≤ 5.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.2 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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