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CVE-2022-49949

firmware_loader: Fix memory leak in firmware upload

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jun 18, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

firmware_loader: Fix memory leak in firmware upload

In the case of firmware-upload, an instance of struct fw_upload is allocated in firmware_upload_register(). This data needs to be freed in fw_dev_release(). Create a new fw_upload_free() function in sysfs_upload.c to handle the firmware-upload specific memory frees and incorporate the missing kfree call for the fw_upload structure.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 to before baf92485d111be828e1ab84a995515b604b938e5Affected
  • 97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 to before 789bba82f63c3e81dce426ba457fc7905b30ac6eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.19Affected
  • before 5.19Not affected
  • 5.19.8 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0 and laterNot affected

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