Vulnerability Details CVE-2022-48753
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block: fix memory leak in disk_register_independent_access_ranges
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 adding kobject_put().
Callback function blk_ia_ranges_sysfs_release() in kobject_put()
can handle the pointer "iars" properly.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 10.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
Products affected by CVE-2022-48753
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17