CVE-2022-48661: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio: mockup: Fix potential resource leakage when register a chip If creation of software node fails, the locally allocated string array is left unfreed. Free it on error path.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.15, before 5.15.71 (fixed in 5.15.71); from 5.16, before 5.19.12 (fixed in 5.19.12)

Published 2024-04-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.