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CVE-2022-50462 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, it need be freed when module exiting, call put_device() to give up reference, so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0. The vpe_device is static, so remove kfree() from vpe_device_release().


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/170e9913c2ed5cfc37c0adf0fdbd368d2d8d8168 kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48d42f4464d713fbdd79f334fdcd6e5be534cc67 kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5822e8cc84ee37338ab0bdc3124f6eec04dc232d kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/851ae5640875f06494e40002cd503b11a634c6fb kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d180e0bb21c57bd6cca2adeb672d3b522e910b5 kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab3d47c1fd0202821abd473ca87580faafd47847 kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b191dde84e40624d5577f64db0ec922c5c0ec57c kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3325a443525e3b89151879b834519b21c5e3011 kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e820a8192ff68570100347855b567512aec43819 kernel.org Patch 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2022-50462
NVD Published Date:
10/01/2025
NVD Last Modified:
01/16/2026
Source:
kernel.org