Security Advisory

CVE-2022-49370

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-02-26 02:11:13
Last updated 2026-05-11 18:58:22
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmi_sysfs_register_handle kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add() If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Fix this issue by calling kobject_put().