Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-49011 - Memory Leak vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (coretemp) fix pci device refcount leak in nv1a_ram_new() As comment of pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() says, it returns a pci device with refcount increment, when finish using it, the caller must decrement the reference count by calling pci_dev_put(). So call it after using to avoid refcount leak.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb75a0d1223d43f97089841aecb28a9b4de687a9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dd1da5a15eeecb2fe4cf131b3216fb455af783c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f74cffc7c85f770b1b1833dccb03b8cde3be102
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea5844f946b1ec5c0b7c115cd7684f34fd48021b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c40db1e5f316792b557d2be37e447c20d9ac4635
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e035d5a2a6b907cfce9a80c5f442c2e459cd34e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f598da27acbeee414679cacd14294db3e273e3d2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7dec14537c5906b8bf40fd6fd6d9c3850f8df11d