CVE-2022-24959: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. There is a memory leak in yam_siocdevprivate in drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.16.5 (fixed in 5.16.5)

Published 2022-02-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.