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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 1, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-50462

CVE-2022-50462

Description

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

MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting

Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, it need be freed when module exiting, call put_device() to give up reference, so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0. The vpe_device is static, so remove kfree() from vpe_device_release().

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  • Linux/Kernelcpe-rescue3 versions
    2.6.30+ 2 more
    • (no CPE)range: 2.6.30
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=2.6.30,<4.9.337
    • (no CPE)
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 2.6.30, < 4.9.337

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