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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 1, 2025

ALSA: ac97: fix possible memory leak in snd_ac97_dev_register()

CVE-2022-50427

Description

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

ALSA: ac97: fix possible memory leak in snd_ac97_dev_register()

If device_register() fails in snd_ac97_dev_register(), it should call put_device() to give up reference, or the name allocated in dev_set_name() is leaked.

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