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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published Sep 17, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 17, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

staging: vt6655: fix some erroneous memory clean-up loops

In some initialization functions of this driver, memory is allocated with
'i' acting as an index variable and increasing from 0. The commit in
"Fixes" introduces some clean-up codes in case of allocation failure,
which free memory in reverse order with 'i' decreasing to 0. However,
there are some problems:

  • The case i=0 is left out. Thus memory is leaked.
  • In case memory allocation fails right from the start, the memory
    freeing loops will start with i=-1 and invalid memory locations will
    be accessed.

One of these loops has been fixed in commit c8ff91535880 ("staging:
vt6655: fix potential memory leak"). Fix the remaining erroneous loops.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 17, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 17, 2025
Last updated Sep 17, 2025

Severity

Unknown

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2022-50355

GHSA ID

GHSA-r7xh-cr9c-6wxq

Source code

No known source code

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