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CVE-2022-49757

kernel: EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe()

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · March 27, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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

EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe()

When devres_open_group() fails, it returns -ENOMEM without freeing memory allocated by edac_mc_alloc().

Call edac_mc_free() on the error handling path to avoid a memory leak.

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CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 3.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime