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CVE-2022-50830

kernel: auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix potential memory leak in hd44780_remove()

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

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CVSS

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Published · December 30, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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

auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix potential memory leak in hd44780_remove()

hd44780_probe() allocates a memory chunk for hd with kzalloc() and makes "lcd->drvdata->hd44780" point to it. When we call hd44780_remove(), we should release all relevant memory and resource. But "lcd->drvdata ->hd44780" is not released, which will lead to a memory leak.

We should release the "lcd->drvdata->hd44780" in hd44780_remove() to fix the memory leak bug.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

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