Riskcovery

CVE-2022-50189

tools/power turbostat: Fix file pointer leak

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:

tools/power turbostat: Fix file pointer leak

Currently if a fscanf fails then an early return leaks an open file pointer. Fix this by fclosing the file before the return. Detected using static analysis with cppcheck:

tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c:2039:3: error: Resource leak: fp [resourceLeak]

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • eae97e053fe306edbbe60c934031edf9a8affd3f to before 2ebf6f5946817f33fb33e613e359229e98164eb3Affected
  • eae97e053fe306edbbe60c934031edf9a8affd3f to before 5e5fd36c58d6c820f7292ee492c3731c9a104a41Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.19Affected
  • before 5.19Not affected
  • 5.19.2 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0 and laterNot affected

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