Bug 2347866 (CVE-2022-49224) - CVE-2022-49224 kernel: power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init
Summary: CVE-2022-49224 kernel: power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sy...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49224
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-02-26 03:09 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-02-26 16:47 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:09:29 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init

kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add():

   If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
   properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 12:31:20 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022622-CVE-2022-49224-8d81@gregkh/T

Comment 2 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 16:47:51 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022622-CVE-2022-49224-8d81@gregkh/T


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