CVE-2022-48863: 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: mISDN: Fix memory leak in dsp_pipeline_build() dsp_pipeline_build() allocates dup pointer by kstrdup(cfg), but then it updates dup variable by strsep(&dup, "|"). As a result when it calls kfree(dup), the dup variable contains NULL. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.27, before 5.10.106 (fixed in 5.10.106); from 5.11, before 5.15.29 (fixed in 5.15.29); from 5.16, before 5.16.15 (fixed in 5.16.15)

Published 2024-07-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.