CVE-2022-49224
kernel: power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · February 26, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
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().
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE not specified