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CVE-2022-49866

net: wwan: mhi: fix memory leak in mhi_mbim_dellink PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: wwan: mhi: fix memory leak in mhi_mbim_dellink MHI driver registers network device without setting the needs_free_netdev flag, and does NOT call free_netdev() when unregisters network device, which causes a memory leak. This patch sets needs_free_netdev to true when registers network device, which makes netdev subsystem call free_netdev() automatically after unregister_netdevice().

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected aa730a9905b7b079ef2fffdab7f15dbb842f5c7c before 2845bc9070cef0c651987487d84d4813d64675dd; affected aa730a9905b7b079ef2fffdab7f15dbb842f5c7c before 3cd3ffe952f78ec5dadf300cb58d4b38a0c0106d; affected aa730a9905b7b079ef2fffdab7f15dbb842f5c7c before 668205b9c9f94d5ed6ab00cce9a46a654c2b5d16
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.15; unaffected 0 before 5.15; unaffected 5.15.79 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.0.9 through 6.0.*; unaffected 6.1 through *

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