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MEDIUMCVSS 5.5

CVE-2022-50500

CVE-2022-50500 updated by NVD

Modified
2026-11-06
Sources
nvd

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_drv_probe() when nsim_dev_resources_register() failed If some items in nsim_dev_resources_register() fail, memory leak will occur. The following is the memory leak information. unreferenced object 0xffff888074c02600 (size 128): comm "echo", pid 8159, jiffies 4294945184 (age 493.530s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 40 47 ea 89 ff ff ff ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 @G.............. ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ backtrace: [ ] kmalloc_trace+0x22/0x60 [ ] devl_resource_register+0x144/0x4e0 [ ] nsim_drv_probe+0x37a/0x1260 [ ] really_probe+0x20b/0xb10 [ ] __driver_probe_device+0x1b3/0x4a0 [ ] driver_probe_device+0x49/0x140 [ ] __device_attach_driver+0x18c/0x2a0 [ ] bus_for_each_drv+0x151/0x1d0 [ ] __device_attach+0x1c9/0x4e0 [ ] bus_probe_device+0x1d5/0x280 [ ] device_add+0xae0/0x1cb0 [ ] new_device_store+0x3b6/0x5f0 [ ] bus_attr_store+0x72/0xa0 [ ] sysfs_kf_write+0x106/0x160 [ ] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a8/0x5a0 [ ] vfs_write+0x8f0/0xc80

References

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