Bug 2363394 (CVE-2022-49821)

Summary: CVE-2022-49821 kernel: mISDN: fix possible memory leak in mISDN_dsp_element_register()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:03:06 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mISDN: fix possible memory leak in mISDN_dsp_element_register()

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

The 'entry' is going to be freed in mISDN_dsp_dev_release(), so the
kfree() is removed. list_del() is called in mISDN_dsp_dev_release(),
so it need be initialized.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 06:54:19 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050133-CVE-2022-49821-9223@gregkh/T