CVE-2022-50278 (GCVE-0-2022-50278)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:21 – Updated: 2025-09-15 14:21
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PNP: fix name memory leak in pnp_alloc_dev() After commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, move dev_set_name() after pnp_add_id() to avoid memory leak.
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Linux Linux Affected: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e , < ea77b4b761cd75e5456f677311babfa0418f289a (git)
Affected: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e , < 693a0c13c1f0c0fcaa1e38cb806cc0789bd415aa (git)
Affected: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e , < bbcf772216aa237036cc3ae3158288d0a95aaf4d (git)
Affected: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e , < 81b024df4755e6bb6993b786584eca6eabbb9791 (git)
Affected: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e , < dac87e295cddc8ab316cff14ab2071b5221d84fa (git)
Affected: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e , < c12b314bb23dc0c83e03402cc84574700947e3b2 (git)
Affected: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e , < 1f50c7497a5f89de0c31f2edf086af41ff834320 (git)
Affected: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e , < 290dd73b943c95c006df973257076ff163adf4d0 (git)
Affected: 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e , < 110d7b0325c55ff3620073ba4201845f59e22ebf (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.30
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.30 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.9.337 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.303 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.270 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.229 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.163 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.86 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.16 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.2 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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