CVE-2022-50331
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2022
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
wwan_hwsim: fix possible memory leak in wwan_hwsim_dev_new()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wwan_hwsim: fix possible memory leak in wwan_hwsim_dev_new() Inject fault while probing module, if device_register() fails, but the refcount of kobject is not decreased to 0, the name allocated in dev_set_name() is leaked. Fix this by calling put_device(), so that name can be freed in callback function kobject_cleanup(). unreferenced object 0xffff88810152ad20 (size 8): comm "modprobe", pid 252, jiffies 4294849206 (age 22.713s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 68 77 73 69 6d 30 00 ff hwsim0.. backtrace: [<000000009c3504ed>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1b0 [<00000000c0228a5e>] kvasprintf+0xb5/0x140 [<00000000cff8c21f>] kvasprintf_const+0x55/0x180 [<0000000055a1e073>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150 [<000000000a80b139>] dev_set_name+0xab/0xe0
Scoped product and version facts
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.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f36a111a74e71edbba27d4c0cf3d7bbccc172108 | affected | git | 50c31fa952309536c6e4461ff815ddccc8dff9d5 | Unavailable | None listed |
| f36a111a74e71edbba27d4c0cf3d7bbccc172108 | affected | git | d87973314aba6de80a49f4271dd9be4ddc08e729 | Unavailable | None listed |
| f36a111a74e71edbba27d4c0cf3d7bbccc172108 | affected | git | 258ad2fe5ede773625adfda88b173f4123e59f45 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.14 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 5.14 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.15.76 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.0.6 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.0.* | None listed |
| 6.1 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |