CVE-2022-49657 (GCVE-0-2022-49657)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:23 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:36
VLAI?
Title
usbnet: fix memory leak in error case
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usbnet: fix memory leak in error case usbnet_write_cmd_async() mixed up which buffers need to be freed in which error case. v2: add Fixes tag v3: fix uninitialized buf pointer
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: 877bd862f32b815d54ab5fc10a4fd903d7bf3012 , < 3eed421ca5c809da93456f69203d164d5220be3d (git)
Affected: 877bd862f32b815d54ab5fc10a4fd903d7bf3012 , < 5269209f54dd8dfd15f9383f3a3a1fe8370764f8 (git)
Affected: 877bd862f32b815d54ab5fc10a4fd903d7bf3012 , < d5165e657987ff4ba0ace896d4376a3718a9fbc3 (git)
Affected: 877bd862f32b815d54ab5fc10a4fd903d7bf3012 , < 04894ab34faf40ab72a8a5ab5b404bb0606bbbff (git)
Affected: 877bd862f32b815d54ab5fc10a4fd903d7bf3012 , < 0085da9df3dced730027923a6b48f58e9016af91 (git)
Affected: 877bd862f32b815d54ab5fc10a4fd903d7bf3012 , < db89582ff330556188da856e01382ccbf3a5e706 (git)
Affected: 877bd862f32b815d54ab5fc10a4fd903d7bf3012 , < e7b4f69946a38209b4a4f660bf0e4cbed94f9b4b (git)
Affected: 877bd862f32b815d54ab5fc10a4fd903d7bf3012 , < b55a21b764c1e182014630fa5486d717484ac58f (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 3.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.9.323 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.288 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.252 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.205 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.130 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.54 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.11 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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