Memory Leak Affecting kernel-default-devel package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.124.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELDEFAULTDEVEL-13608542
  • published17 Oct 2025
  • disclosed16 Oct 2025

Introduced: 16 Oct 2025

CVE-2022-50349  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-default-devel to version 5.14.21-150500.55.124.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-devel package and not the kernel-default-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media()

If device_register() returns error in tifm_7xx1_switch_media(), name of kobject which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked.

Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the reference initialized.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1