CVE-2022-49403

Published: Feb 26, 2025Modified: Oct 1, 2025

5.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list Add allocated strarray to device's resource list. This is a must to automatically release strarray when the device disappears. Without this fix we have a memory leak in the few drivers which use devm_kasprintf_strarray().

Affected (2)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel

1 product

Configuration A

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Linux Linux Kernel	From 5.17 to 5.17.14
Linux Linux Kernel	From 5.18 to 5.18.3

Related CWEs

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

References (3)

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a152eb42fcecfe41239c3c6695342f3a128593e7

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf29edab0c9ff3d2633b8306a67d04c357e2a385

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd290a9839cee2f6641558877e707bd373c8f6f1

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Patch

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