CVE-2022-49284: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: syscfg: Fix memleak on registration failure in cscfg_create_device device_register() calls device_initialize(), according to doc of device_initialize: Use put_device() to give up your reference instead of freeing * @dev directly once you have called this function. To prevent potential memleak, use put_device() for error handling.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.15, before 5.15.33 (fixed in 5.15.33); from 5.16, before 5.16.19 (fixed in 5.16.19); from 5.17, before 5.17.2 (fixed in 5.17.2)

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.