CVE-2022-50882

kernel: media: uvcvideo: Fix memory leak in uvc_gpio_parse

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · December 30, 2025

Updated · July 22, 2026

Description

A memory leak was found in the UVC video driver's GPIO parsing code. When IRQ acquisition fails for a privacy GPIO, the previously allocated unit buffer is not freed, causing a memory leak.

Statement

This leak occurs only when probing UVC cameras with privacy GPIOs that fail IRQ acquisition. The impact is limited to minor memory consumption during camera enumeration failures.

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-772 · Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime