Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-49619 - 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: net: sfp: fix memory leak in sfp_probe() sfp_probe() allocates a memory chunk from sfp with sfp_alloc(). When devm_add_action() fails, sfp is not freed, which leads to a memory leak. We should use devm_add_action_or_reset() instead of devm_add_action().
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a18d802d65cf662644fd1d369c86d84a5630652
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1545bc727625ea6e8decd717e5d1e8cc704ccf8f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/204543581a2f26bb3b997a304c0bd06926ba7f15
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67dc32542a1fb7790d0853cf4a5cf859ac6a2002
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ec5a97f327a89031fce6cfc3e95543c53936638
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ede990cfc42775bd0141e21f37ee365dcaeeb50f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f22ddc8a5278d7fb6369a0aeb0d8775a0aefaaee