CVE-2022-49403 (GCVE-0-2022-49403)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:12 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:46
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Title
lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list Add allocated strarray to device's resource list. This is a must to automatically release strarray when the device disappears. Without this fix we have a memory leak in the few drivers which use devm_kasprintf_strarray().
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
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Linux Linux Affected: acdb89b6c87a2d7b5c48a82756e6f5c6f599f60a , < a152eb42fcecfe41239c3c6695342f3a128593e7 (git)
Affected: acdb89b6c87a2d7b5c48a82756e6f5c6f599f60a , < bf29edab0c9ff3d2633b8306a67d04c357e2a385 (git)
Affected: acdb89b6c87a2d7b5c48a82756e6f5c6f599f60a , < cd290a9839cee2f6641558877e707bd373c8f6f1 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.14 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.3 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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