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CVE-2022-49867

net: wwan: iosm: fix memory leak in ipc_wwan_dellink PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: wwan: iosm: fix memory leak in ipc_wwan_dellink IOSM 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 2a54f2c7793409736f2e5ea101e050b3f1997088 before 2ce2348c2858d723f7fe389dead9b43b08e0944e; affected 2a54f2c7793409736f2e5ea101e050b3f1997088 before 128514b51a5ba2c82f9e4a106f1c10423907618a; affected 2a54f2c7793409736f2e5ea101e050b3f1997088 before f25caaca424703d5a0607310f0452f978f1f78d9
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.14; unaffected 0 before 5.14; unaffected 5.15.79 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.0.9 through 6.0.*; unaffected 6.1 through *

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