CVE-2022-50857 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2022-50857

rapidio: rio: fix possible name leak in rio_register_mport()

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rapidio: rio: fix possible name leak in rio_register_mport() If device_register() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. It should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path, so that the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(), and list_del() is called to delete the port from rio_mports.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
2aaf308b95b24649a6dcfed89cd956e972089b2a, 3.15, 0, 4.9.337, 4.14.303, 4.19.270, 5.4.229, 5.10.163, 5.15.86, 6.0.16, 6.1.2, 6.2

Timeline

Official Publish: December 30th, 2025
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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