Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2025· Updated Oct 1, 2025
EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe()
CVE-2022-49757
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe()
When devres_open_group() fails, it returns -ENOMEM without freeing memory allocated by edac_mc_alloc().
Call edac_mc_free() on the error handling path to avoid a memory leak.
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7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0db40e23b56d217eebd385bebb64057ef764b2c7mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/329fbd260352a7b9a83781d8b8bd96f95844a51fmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d23f5d25264beb223ee79cdb530b88c237719fcmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7863ef8a8f0fee96b4eb41211f4918c0e047253mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/caffa7fed1397d1395052272c93900176de86557mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7a293658c20a7945014570e1921bf7d25d68a36mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1b3e23ed8df87d779ee86ac37f379e79a24169amitre
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