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CVE-2022-49746

kernel: dmaengine: imx-sdma: Fix a possible memory leak in sdma_transfer_init

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · March 27, 2025

Updated · July 22, 2026

Description

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

dmaengine: imx-sdma: Fix a possible memory leak in sdma_transfer_init

If the function sdma_load_context() fails, the sdma_desc will be freed, but the allocated desc->bd is forgot to be freed.

We already met the sdma_load_context() failure case and the log as below: [ 450.699064] imx-sdma 30bd0000.dma-controller: Timeout waiting for CH0 ready ...

In this case, the desc->bd will not be freed without this change.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime