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Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2022-48693

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soc: brcmstb: pm-arm: Fix refcount leak and __iomem leak bugs In brcmstb_pm_probe(), there are two kinds of leak bugs: (1) we need to add of_node_put() when for_each__matching_node() breaks (2) we need to add iounmap() for each iomap in fail path

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)

'Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)' is a weakness that occurs when software doesn't effectively release allocated memory after it is used. If not addressed, this enables attackers to launch denial of service attacks (by crashing or hanging the program) or take advantage of other unexpected behavior resulting from low memory conditions.

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  • Published