CVE-2022-49855: 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: wwan: iosm: fix memory leak in ipc_pcie_read_bios_cfg ipc_pcie_read_bios_cfg() is using the acpi_evaluate_dsm() to obtain the wwan power state configuration from BIOS but is not freeing the acpi_object. The acpi_evaluate_dsm() returned acpi_object to be freed. Free the acpi_object after use.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.14, before 5.15.79 (fixed in 5.15.79); from 5.16, before 6.0.9 (fixed in 6.0.9); version 6.1 only

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