Security Advisory
CVE-2022-49284
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
coresight: syscfg: Fix memleak on registration failure in cscfg_create_device
device_register() calls device_initialize(),
according to doc of device_initialize:
Use put_device() to give up your reference instead of freeing
* @dev directly once you have called this function.
To prevent potential memleak, use put_device() for error handling.
Published Date
February 26, 2025
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory