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CVE-2022-50624

net: netsec: fix error handling in netsec_register_mdio() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: netsec: fix error handling in netsec_register_mdio() If phy_device_register() fails, phy_device_free() need be called to put refcount, so memory of phy device and device name can be freed in callback function. If get_phy_device() fails, mdiobus_unregister() need be called, or it will cause warning in mdiobus_free() and kobject is leaked.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 533dd11a12f698c571a12271b20f235792d3e148 before 728884b22d83148a330b23f9472f1e118b589211; affected 533dd11a12f698c571a12271b20f235792d3e148 before fda2d07234a21be4d71ebfe97a45f499726902d6; affected 533dd11a12f698c571a12271b20f235792d3e148 before 62f0a08e82a6312efd7df7f595c0b11d4ffde610; affected 533dd11a12f698c571a12271b20f235792d3e148 before 1e0bee973ef6fc3c1e3acb014515eaea37c8fa17; affected 533dd11a12f698c571a12271b20f235792d3e148 before 846e677daf51220d7975c61a20e440a88473951e; affected 533dd11a12f698c571a12271b20f235792d3e148 before 94423589689124e8cd145b38a1034be7f25835b2
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.16; unaffected 0 before 4.16; unaffected 4.19.264 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.223 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.153 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.77 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.0.7 through 6.0.*; unaffected 6.1 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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