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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49549"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:14:00.256Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:02:05.848Z"
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-2022-49549"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49549.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49549"
title: "x86/MCE/AMD: Fix memory leak when threshold_create_bank() fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nx86/MCE/AMD: Fix memory leak when threshold_create_bank() fails\n\nIn mce_threshold_create_device(), if threshold_create_bank() fails, the\npreviously allocated threshold banks array @bp will be leaked because\nthe call to mce_threshold_remove_device() will not free it.\n\nThis happens because mce_threshold_remove_device() fetches the pointer\nthrough the threshold_banks per-CPU variable but bp is written there\nonly after the bank creation is successful, and not before, when\nthreshold_create_bank() fails.\n\nAdd a helper which unwinds all the bank creation work previously done\nand pass into it the previously allocated threshold banks array for\nfreeing.\n\n  [ bp: Massage. ]"
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