CVE-2022-49817: 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: net: mhi: Fix memory leak in mhi_net_dellink() MHI driver registers network device without setting the needs_free_netdev flag, and does NOT call free_netdev() when unregisters network device, which causes a memory leak. This patch calls free_netdev() to fix it since netdev_priv is used after unregister.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.14, before 5.15.80 (fixed in 5.15.80); from 5.16, before 6.0.10 (fixed in 6.0.10); version 6.1 only

Published 2025-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.