CVE-2022-50462

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

Description A memory leak could occur during module exit in the MIPS virtual processor environment (vpe-mt). After a specific commit (1fa5ae857bb1), device names are dynamically allocated and require freeing upon module exit using put device() to allow cleanup via kobject cleanup() when the reference count reaches zero. The vpe device is static, removing the need for kfree() in vpe device release().

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