Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2025
PNP: fix name memory leak in pnp_alloc_dev()
CVE-2022-50278
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PNP: fix name memory leak in pnp_alloc_dev()
After commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, move dev_set_name() after pnp_add_id() to avoid memory leak.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 2.6.30
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
9- git.kernel.org/stable/c/110d7b0325c55ff3620073ba4201845f59e22ebfmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f50c7497a5f89de0c31f2edf086af41ff834320mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/290dd73b943c95c006df973257076ff163adf4d0mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/693a0c13c1f0c0fcaa1e38cb806cc0789bd415aamitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/81b024df4755e6bb6993b786584eca6eabbb9791mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbcf772216aa237036cc3ae3158288d0a95aaf4dmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c12b314bb23dc0c83e03402cc84574700947e3b2mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/dac87e295cddc8ab316cff14ab2071b5221d84famitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea77b4b761cd75e5456f677311babfa0418f289amitre
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