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CVE-2022-49283 (GCVE-0-2022-49283)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 01:56 – Updated: 2026-05-11 18:56
VLAI
Title
firmware: sysfb: fix platform-device leak in error path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: sysfb: fix platform-device leak in error path Make sure to free the platform device also in the unlikely event that registration fails.
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: 8633ef82f101c040427b57d4df7b706261420b94 , < b3e38f939ab4d0d86f56bff3362c3f88c4b2ad32 (git)
Affected: 8633ef82f101c040427b57d4df7b706261420b94 , < bb7fcbe80a013dc883181dc818c407d38558f76c (git)
Affected: 8633ef82f101c040427b57d4df7b706261420b94 , < fed4df558b8cdb6f3beea38a7c977f118f082b0d (git)
Affected: 8633ef82f101c040427b57d4df7b706261420b94 , < 202c08914ba50dd324e42d5ad99535a89f242560 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (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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