Bug 2420344 (CVE-2022-50664)

Summary: CVE-2022-50664 kernel: media: dvb-frontends: fix leak of memory fw
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A memory leak vulnerability was found in the DVB frontend drivers in the Linux kernel. Firmware memory is not properly freed in certain code paths, leading to memory leakage. Over time, this can cause resource exhaustion on systems using DVB hardware.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 02:04:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: dvb-frontends: fix leak of memory fw