CVE detail

CVE-2022-49817 — CVE-2022-49817

Published 2025-05-01 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor linux · Product linux_kernel · Source nvd

MEDIUM

severity

CVSS-derived band

5.5

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0019

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

8.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mhi: Fix memory leak in mhi_net_dellink() MHI driver registers network device without setting the needs_free_netdev flag, and does NOT call free_netdev() when unregisters network device, which causes a memory leak. This patch calls free_netdev() to fix it since netdev_priv is used after unregister.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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