# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49370"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:11:13.176Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:58:22.481Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49370"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49370.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49370"
title: "firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmi_sysfs_register_handle"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfirmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmi_sysfs_register_handle\n\nkobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.\nAccording to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()\n\n   If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to\n   properly clean up the memory associated with the object.\n\nFix this issue by calling kobject_put()."
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