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FKIE_CVE-2022-50449

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-01 12:15 - Updated: 2026-01-16 19:51

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll() If clk_register() fails, @pll->rate_table may have allocated memory by kmemdup(), so it needs to be freed, otherwise will cause memory leak issue, this patch fixes it.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e8dc0626fe86ae08914478dec1419618c557bc0	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4887ec922e407b4feaf060c7b099482a5c52dee3	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e501a31af8efa593a2f003637b56d00b75dca23	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5174e5b0d1b669a489524192b6adcbb3c54ebc72	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b738276a596fa101d320591e9fa84ea0fc3f713	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a00b4e0fa27317957536abf8f5d6a96d6cb9d9be	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a35323218ff32782d051d2643912311a22e07b6a	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da13355bb9961316d124f94dfc7a1385d0fb035a	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*

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CVE-2022-50449 (GCVE-0-2022-50449)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:45 – Updated: 2025-10-01 11:45

Title

clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll()

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b738276a596fa101…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e8dc0626fe86ae08…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a00b4e0fa27317957…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da13355bb9961316d…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e501a31af8efa593…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4887ec922e407b4fe…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a35323218ff32782d…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5174e5b0d1b669a48…

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Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < 7b738276a596fa101d320591e9fa84ea0fc3f713 (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < 2e8dc0626fe86ae08914478dec1419618c557bc0 (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < a00b4e0fa27317957536abf8f5d6a96d6cb9d9be (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < da13355bb9961316d124f94dfc7a1385d0fb035a (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < 4e501a31af8efa593a2f003637b56d00b75dca23 (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < 4887ec922e407b4feaf060c7b099482a5c52dee3 (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < a35323218ff32782d051d2643912311a22e07b6a (git)
Affected: 3ff6e0d8d64d594a551b5c4904e4b617bf7eee22 , < 5174e5b0d1b669a489524192b6adcbb3c54ebc72 (git)

Linux

Affected: 3.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.12 (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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FKIE_CVE-2022-50449

CVE-2022-50449 (GCVE-0-2022-50449)

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