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CVE-2022-49819
Cavium Octeon Linux Kernel Memory Leak Vulnerability
Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeon_ep: fix potential memory leak in octep_device_setup() When occur unsupported_dev and mbox init errors, it did not free oct->conf and iounmap() oct->mmio[i].hw_addr. That would trigger memory leak problem. Add kfree() for oct->conf and iounmap() for oct->mmio[i].hw_addr under unsupported_dev and mbox init errors to fix the problem.

INFO

Published Date :

May 1, 2025, 3:16 p.m.

Last Modified :

May 2, 2025, 1:53 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

No

Source :

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Affected Products

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ID Vendor Product Action
1 Linux linux_kernel
: Total Affected Vendor : 1 | Products : 1
Solution
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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67b65a0db8a7fdad43159819f41335497a4bb04f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4041be97b15302ebfffda8bbd45f3b2d096048f
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  • New CVE Received by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    May. 01, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeon_ep: fix potential memory leak in octep_device_setup() When occur unsupported_dev and mbox init errors, it did not free oct->conf and iounmap() oct->mmio[i].hw_addr. That would trigger memory leak problem. Add kfree() for oct->conf and iounmap() for oct->mmio[i].hw_addr under unsupported_dev and mbox init errors to fix the problem.
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67b65a0db8a7fdad43159819f41335497a4bb04f
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4041be97b15302ebfffda8bbd45f3b2d096048f
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