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GHSA-M3J7-R27P-7M78

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-01 15:31 – Updated: 2025-05-07 15:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: wwan: iosm: fix memory leak in ipc_pcie_read_bios_cfg

ipc_pcie_read_bios_cfg() is using the acpi_evaluate_dsm() to obtain the wwan power state configuration from BIOS but is not freeing the acpi_object. The acpi_evaluate_dsm() returned acpi_object to be freed.

Free the acpi_object after use.

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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CVE-2022-49855 (GCVE-0-2022-49855)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 14:10 – Updated: 2025-10-01 16:06

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: wwan: iosm: fix memory leak in ipc_pcie_read_bios_cfg ipc_pcie_read_bios_cfg() is using the acpi_evaluate_dsm() to obtain the wwan power state configuration from BIOS but is not freeing the acpi_object. The acpi_evaluate_dsm() returned acpi_object to be freed. Free the acpi_object after use.

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13b1ea861e8aeb701…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7560ceef4d2832a67…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d38a648d2d6cc7bee…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 7e98d785ae6184c7580a33619dae8b651769ff08 , < 13b1ea861e8aeb701bcfbfe436b943efa2d44029 (git)
Affected: 7e98d785ae6184c7580a33619dae8b651769ff08 , < 7560ceef4d2832a67e8781d924e129c7f542376f (git)
Affected: 7e98d785ae6184c7580a33619dae8b651769ff08 , < d38a648d2d6cc7bee11c6f533ff9426a00c2a74c (git)

Linux

Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.79 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.9 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-M3J7-R27P-7M78

CVE-2022-49855 (GCVE-0-2022-49855)

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