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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated Oct 1, 2025

firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmi_sysfs_register_handle

CVE-2022-49370

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmi_sysfs_register_handle

kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()

If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

Fix this issue by calling kobject_put().

Affected products

136

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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