Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2022-50672

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mailbox: zynq-ipi: fix error handling while device_register() fails If device_register() fails, it has two issues: 1. The name allocated by dev_set_name() is leaked. 2. The parent of device is not NULL, device_unregister() is called in zynqmp_ipi_free_mboxes(), it will lead a kernel crash because of removing not added device. Call put_device() to give up the reference, so the name is freed in kobject_cleanup(). Add device registered check in zynqmp_ipi_free_mboxes() to avoid null-ptr-deref.

EPSS: 0.002 (12.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 4981b82ba2ff87df6a711fcd7a233c615df5fc79, 5.1, 0

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