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FKIE_CVE-2022-50537

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-07 16:15 - Updated: 2026-02-26 23:16

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: raspberrypi: fix possible memory leak in rpi_firmware_probe() In rpi_firmware_probe(), if mbox_request_channel() fails, the 'fw' will not be freed through rpi_firmware_delete(), fix this leak by calling kfree() in the error path.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62ac943eb2a9d655e431b9bc98ff6d7bd51a0e49	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6757dd2193fe18c5c5fe3050e7f2ff9dcbd1ff34	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71d2abab374f707ab8ac8dcef191fd2b3b67b8bd	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b51161696e803fd5f9ad55b20a64c2df313f95c	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b308fdedef095aac14569f810d46edf773ea7d1e	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d34742245e4366579f9a80f8cfe4a63248e838e0	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*

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CVE-2022-50537 (GCVE-0-2022-50537)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-07 15:21 – Updated: 2025-10-07 15:21

Title

firmware: raspberrypi: fix possible memory leak in rpi_firmware_probe()

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62ac943eb2a9d655e…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d34742245e4366579…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b308fdedef095aac1…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6757dd2193fe18c5c…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71d2abab374f707ab…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b51161696e803fd5…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: d537afa08e156a0a72562e625506825c2776fcfa , < 62ac943eb2a9d655e431b9bc98ff6d7bd51a0e49 (git)
Affected: 60831f5ae6c713afceb6d29f40899ed112f36059 , < d34742245e4366579f9a80f8cfe4a63248e838e0 (git)
Affected: 1e7c57355a3bc617fc220234889e49fe722a6305 , < b308fdedef095aac14569f810d46edf773ea7d1e (git)
Affected: 1e7c57355a3bc617fc220234889e49fe722a6305 , < 6757dd2193fe18c5c5fe3050e7f2ff9dcbd1ff34 (git)
Affected: 1e7c57355a3bc617fc220234889e49fe722a6305 , < 71d2abab374f707ab8ac8dcef191fd2b3b67b8bd (git)
Affected: 1e7c57355a3bc617fc220234889e49fe722a6305 , < 7b51161696e803fd5f9ad55b20a64c2df313f95c (git)

Linux

Affected: 5.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.163 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.86 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.16 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.2 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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FKIE_CVE-2022-50537

CVE-2022-50537 (GCVE-0-2022-50537)

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