CVE-2022-50669: Linux

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: ocxl: fix possible name leak in ocxl_file_register_afu() If device_register() returns error in ocxl_file_register_afu(), the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(), and info is freed in info_release().

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 5.2, before 5.4.229 (fixed in 5.4.229); from 5.5, before 5.10.163 (fixed in 5.10.163); from 5.11, before 5.15.86 (fixed in 5.15.86); from 5.16, before 6.0.16 (fixed in 6.0.16); from 6.1, before 6.1.2 (fixed in 6.1.2)

Published 2025-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.