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CVE-2022-50521

platform/x86: mxm-wmi: fix memleak in mxm_wmi_call_mx[ds|mx]() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: mxm-wmi: fix memleak in mxm_wmi_call_mx[ds|mx]() The ACPI buffer memory (out.pointer) returned by wmi_evaluate_method() is not freed after the call, so it leads to memory leak. The method results in ACPI buffer is not used, so just pass NULL to wmi_evaluate_method() which fixes the memory leak.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 99b38b4acc0d7dbbab443273577cff60080fcfad before 50ac517d6f5348b276f1f663799cf85dce521518; affected 99b38b4acc0d7dbbab443273577cff60080fcfad before 5b0f81b0808235967868e01336c976e840217108; affected 99b38b4acc0d7dbbab443273577cff60080fcfad before 14bb4bde3b7b2584734b13747b345caeeb41bea3; affected 99b38b4acc0d7dbbab443273577cff60080fcfad before 17cd8c46cbec4e6ad593fb9159928b8e7608c11a; affected 99b38b4acc0d7dbbab443273577cff60080fcfad before 3cf81501356c9e898ad94b2369ffc805f83f7d7b; affected 99b38b4acc0d7dbbab443273577cff60080fcfad before 379e7794c5e7485193d25d73614fbbd1e1387f6f; affected 99b38b4acc0d7dbbab443273577cff60080fcfad before 87426ce3bd57ad414b6e2436434ef8128986a9a5; affected 99b38b4acc0d7dbbab443273577cff60080fcfad before 727cc0147f5066e359aca65cc6cc5e6d64cc15d8
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.0; unaffected 0 before 3.0; 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

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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