CVE-2022-49835: 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: ALSA: hda: fix potential memleak in 'add_widget_node' As 'kobject_add' may allocated memory for 'kobject->name' when return error. And in this function, if call 'kobject_add' failed didn't free kobject. So call 'kobject_put' to recycling resources.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 4.9.334 (fixed in 4.9.334); from 4.10, before 4.14.300 (fixed in 4.14.300); from 4.15, before 4.19.267 (fixed in 4.19.267); from 4.20, before 5.4.225 (fixed in 5.4.225); from 5.5, before 5.10.155 (fixed in 5.10.155); from 5.11, before 5.15.79 (fixed in 5.15.79); …

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