CVE-2022-50734: Linux

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmem: core: Fix memleak in nvmem_register() dev_set_name will alloc memory for nvmem->dev.kobj.name in nvmem_register, when nvmem_validate_keepouts failed, nvmem's memory will be freed and return, but nobody will free memory for nvmem->dev.kobj.name, there will be memleak, so moving nvmem_validate_keepouts() after device_register() and let the device core deal with cleaning name in error cases.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 5.13.19, before 5.14 (fixed in 5.14); from 5.14.6, before 5.15 (fixed in 5.15); from 5.15, before 5.15.75 (fixed in 5.15.75); from 5.16, before 5.19.17 (fixed in 5.19.17); from 5.20, before 6.0.3 (fixed in 6.0.3)

Published 2025-12-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.