CVE-2022-49284
coresight: syscfg: Fix memleak on registration failure in cscfg_create_device
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Linux
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: syscfg: Fix memleak on registration failure in cscfg_create_device device_register() calls device_initialize(), according to doc of device_initialize: Use put_device() to give up your reference instead of freeing * @dev directly once you have called this function. To prevent potential memleak, use put_device() for error handling.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
Published
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.26% · top 82% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 85e2414c518a03a21dddd4bc88fec2723c5e1197 – < c61e2fc87f24cae4701f352fe9ecd4c5c143106c
- affected 85e2414c518a03a21dddd4bc88fec2723c5e1197 – < a529af1f5a5c096f3e18f0d5a32cfcc3d82df1ec
- affected 85e2414c518a03a21dddd4bc88fec2723c5e1197 – < 412225b32986d5b11c3c1ad9234c50a3f5c52c76
- affected 85e2414c518a03a21dddd4bc88fec2723c5e1197 – < cfa5dbcdd7aece76f3415284569f2f384aff0253
- affected 5.15
- unaffected < 5.15
- unaffected 5.15.33 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 5.16.19 – ≤ 5.16.*
- unaffected 5.17.2 – ≤ 5.17.*
- unaffected 5.18 – ≤ *
References (4)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c61e2fc87f24cae4701f352fe9ecd4c5c143106c (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a529af1f5a5c096f3e18f0d5a32cfcc3d82df1ec (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/412225b32986d5b11c3c1ad9234c50a3f5c52c76 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfa5dbcdd7aece76f3415284569f2f384aff0253 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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