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CVE-2022-50349

misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media() If device_register() returns error in tifm_7xx1_switch_media(), name of kobject which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked. Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the reference initialized.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 2428a8fe2261e901e058d9ea8b6ed7e1b4268b79 before 2bbb222a54ff501f77ce593d21b76b79c905045e; affected 2428a8fe2261e901e058d9ea8b6ed7e1b4268b79 before d861b7d41b17942b337d4b87a70de7cd1dc44d4e; affected 2428a8fe2261e901e058d9ea8b6ed7e1b4268b79 before 1695b1adcc3a7d985cd22fa3b55761edf3fab50d; affected 2428a8fe2261e901e058d9ea8b6ed7e1b4268b79 before ee2715faf7e7153f5142ed09aacfa89a64d45dcb; affected 2428a8fe2261e901e058d9ea8b6ed7e1b4268b79 before 57c857353d5020bdec8284d9c0fee447484fe5e0; affected 2428a8fe2261e901e058d9ea8b6ed7e1b4268b79 before 848c45964ded537107e010aaf353aa30a0855387; affected 2428a8fe2261e901e058d9ea8b6ed7e1b4268b79 before 35abbc8406cc39e72d3ce85f6e869555afe50d54; affected 2428a8fe2261e901e058d9ea8b6ed7e1b4268b79 before ef843ee20576039126d34d6eb5f45d14c3e6ce18; affected 2428a8fe2261e901e058d9ea8b6ed7e1b4268b79 before fd2c930cf6a5b9176382c15f9acb1996e76e25ad
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.22; unaffected 0 before 2.6.22; unaffected 4.9.337 through 4.9.*; unaffected 4.14.303 through 4.14.*; unaffected 4.19.270 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.229 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.163 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.86 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.0.16 through 6.0.*; unaffected 6.1.2 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.2 through *

CWE

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