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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 4, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-50474

CVE-2022-50474

Description

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

macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device()

Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically. It needs to be freed when of_device_register() fails. Call put_device() to give up the reference that's taken in device_initialize(), so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hits 0.

macio device is freed in macio_release_dev(), so the kfree() can be removed.

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  • Linux/Kernel3 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=2.6.30,<4.9.337
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 2.6.30
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 2.6.30, < 4.9.337

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