CVE-2022-49331 (GCVE-0-2022-49331)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:10 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:46
VLAI?
Title
nfc: st21nfca: fix memory leaks in EVT_TRANSACTION handling
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: st21nfca: fix memory leaks in EVT_TRANSACTION handling Error paths do not free previously allocated memory. Add devm_kfree() to those failure paths.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 26fc6c7f02cb26c39c4733de3dbc3c0646fc1074 , < 593773088d615a46a42c97e01a0550d192bb7f74 (git)
Affected: 26fc6c7f02cb26c39c4733de3dbc3c0646fc1074 , < d221ce54ce331c1a23be71eebf57f6a088632383 (git)
Affected: 26fc6c7f02cb26c39c4733de3dbc3c0646fc1074 , < 6fce324b530dd74750ad870699e33eeed1029ded (git)
Affected: 26fc6c7f02cb26c39c4733de3dbc3c0646fc1074 , < 3eca2c42daa4659965db6817479027cbc6df7899 (git)
Affected: 26fc6c7f02cb26c39c4733de3dbc3c0646fc1074 , < 54423649bc0ed464b75807a7cf2857a5871f738f (git)
Affected: 26fc6c7f02cb26c39c4733de3dbc3c0646fc1074 , < f444ecd3f57f4ba5090fe8b6756933e37de4226e (git)
Affected: 26fc6c7f02cb26c39c4733de3dbc3c0646fc1074 , < db836b97464d44340b568e041fd24602858713f7 (git)
Affected: 26fc6c7f02cb26c39c4733de3dbc3c0646fc1074 , < 55904086041ba4ee4070187b36590f8f8d6df4cd (git)
Affected: 26fc6c7f02cb26c39c4733de3dbc3c0646fc1074 , < 996419e0594abb311fb958553809f24f38e7abbe (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.9.318 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.283 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.247 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.198 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.122 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.47 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.15 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.4 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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