CVE-2022-48753

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A memory leak issue has been resolved in the Linux kernel. The problem occurred because kobject init and add() takes a reference even when it fails, and according to its documentation, kobject put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object in case of an error. The fix involves adding kobject put() to handle the memory leak. The callback function blk ia ranges sysfs release() in kobject put() can handle the pointer iars properly.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.