CVE-2022-49757: 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: EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe() When devres_open_group() fails, it returns -ENOMEM without freeing memory allocated by edac_mc_alloc(). Call edac_mc_free() on the error handling path to avoid a memory leak. [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.6, before 4.14.305 (fixed in 4.14.305); from 4.15, before 4.19.272 (fixed in 4.19.272); from 4.20, before 5.4.231 (fixed in 5.4.231); from 5.5, before 5.10.166 (fixed in 5.10.166); from 5.11, before 5.15.91 (fixed in 5.15.91); from 5.16, before 6.1.9 (fixed in 6.1.9); …

Published 2025-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.