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CVE-2022-50578

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2022
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

class: fix possible memory leak in __class_register()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: class: fix possible memory leak in __class_register() If class_add_groups() returns error, the 'cp->subsys' need be unregister, and the 'cp' need be freed. We can not call kset_unregister() here, because the 'cls' will be freed in callback function class_release() and it's also freed in caller's error path, it will cause double free. So fix this by calling kobject_del() and kfree_const(name) to cleanup kobject. Besides, call kfree() to free the 'cp'. Fault injection test can trigger this: unreferenced object 0xffff888102fa8190 (size 8): comm "modprobe", pid 502, jiffies 4294906074 (age 49.296s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 70 6b 74 63 64 76 64 00 pktcdvd. backtrace: [<00000000e7c7703d>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1ae/0x320 [<000000005e4d70bc>] kstrdup+0x3a/0x70 [<00000000c2e5e85a>] kstrdup_const+0x68/0x80 [<000000000049a8c7>] kvasprintf_const+0x10b/0x190 [<0000000029123163>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150 [<00000000747219c9>] kobject_set_name+0xab/0xe0 [<0000000005f1ea4e>] __class_register+0x15c/0x49a unreferenced object 0xffff888037274000 (size 1024): comm "modprobe", pid 502, jiffies 4294906074 (age 49.296s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 40 27 37 80 88 ff ff 00 40 27 37 80 88 ff ff .@'7.....@'7.... 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N.......... backtrace: [<00000000151f9600>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x17c/0x2f0 [<00000000ecf3dd95>] __class_register+0x86/0x49a

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
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734affectedgit4efa5443817c1b6de22d401aeca5b2481e835f8cUnavailableNone listed
ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734affectedgit3bb9c92c27624ad076419a70f2b1a30cd1f8bbbdUnavailableNone listed
ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734affectedgit3e0efc3f3f5e5c73996782f8db69963e501bb878UnavailableNone listed
ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734affectedgit18a7200646958cf8e1b8a933de08122fc50676cdUnavailableNone listed
ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734affectedgit417ef049e3fd3b0d2593c1d5ffa3d0d5d0a018a7UnavailableNone listed
ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734affectedgite764ad5918a099ebeb909ccff83893a714e497e1UnavailableNone listed
ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734affectedgitabaedb68a769e6bf36836b55a2f49b531c5f3f7bUnavailableNone listed
ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734affectedgit8c3e8a6bdb5253b97ad532570f8b5db5f7a06407UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
4.10affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver4.10UnavailableNone listed
4.14.303unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.14.*None listed
4.19.270unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.19.*None listed
5.4.229unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.4.*None listed
5.10.163unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.86unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.0.16unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.0.*None listed
6.1.2unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.2unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed