CVE-2022-50547

Summary

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

media: solo6x10: fix possible memory leak in solo_sysfs_init()

If device_register() returns error in solo_sysfs_init(), the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup().

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxdcae5dacbce518513abf7776cb450b7bd95d722b < 83d4b1ae98a47a739fa5241300b86eb1110d5d63affected
LinuxLinuxdcae5dacbce518513abf7776cb450b7bd95d722b < b61509093e1af69e336a094d439b8e1137cb40d8affected
LinuxLinuxdcae5dacbce518513abf7776cb450b7bd95d722b < 963729538674be4cb8fa292529ecf32de0d6c6ddaffected
LinuxLinuxdcae5dacbce518513abf7776cb450b7bd95d722b < 7b02c50d3978840781808e13bc13137fb81286b5affected
LinuxLinuxdcae5dacbce518513abf7776cb450b7bd95d722b < 49060c0da57a381563e482e331dc9d4c3725b41baffected
LinuxLinuxdcae5dacbce518513abf7776cb450b7bd95d722b < 7cf71bbe5d2ee12613f6e278888f5fc9c5c0cc2baffected
LinuxLinuxdcae5dacbce518513abf7776cb450b7bd95d722b < d6db105bcfbdbbbd484e788a0ddf8140a4a8c486affected
LinuxLinuxdcae5dacbce518513abf7776cb450b7bd95d722b < 9416861170ba0da8ddb0f4fd2d28334f0ed3b9c2affected
LinuxLinuxdcae5dacbce518513abf7776cb450b7bd95d722b < 7f5866dd96d95b74e439f6ee17b8abd8195179fbaffected
LinuxLinux3.10affected
LinuxLinux0 < 3.10unaffected
LinuxLinux4.9.337 <= 4.9.*unaffected
LinuxLinux4.14.303 <= 4.14.*unaffected
LinuxLinux4.19.270 <= 4.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.229 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.163 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.86 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.0.16 <= 6.0.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.2 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.2 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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