CVE-2022-49224

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init

kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()：

If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd < 31cdf7897dba1f096b74f69d840f0575b8cdb9aeaffected
LinuxLinux8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd < 19aa3c98ed7b2616e105946cec804f897837ab84affected
LinuxLinux8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd < db3a61ef8e6aef3b888baa6a85926c2230c2cc56affected
LinuxLinux8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd < 41ed61364285ff38bbbe9ca8a45c8372ba72921daffected
LinuxLinux8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd < 879356a6a05559582b0a7895d86d2d4359745c08affected
LinuxLinux8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd < ffb8e92b4cef92bd25563cf3d8b4489eb22bc61faffected
LinuxLinux8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd < 261041097ab3470f1120b7733cbf472712304d1eaffected
LinuxLinux8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd < c32f6b6196b6efc1c68990dfeaac36fb8eb3b8e1affected
LinuxLinux8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd < 6a4760463dbc6b603690938c468839985189ce0aaffected
LinuxLinux4.9affected
LinuxLinux0 < 4.9unaffected
LinuxLinux4.9.311 <= 4.9.*unaffected
LinuxLinux4.14.276 <= 4.14.*unaffected
LinuxLinux4.19.238 <= 4.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.189 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.110 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.33 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.16.19 <= 5.16.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.17.2 <= 5.17.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.18 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References