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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Linux Kernel up to 5.17.1. The affected element is the function mt7921_load_patch. Such manipulation leads to memory leak. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-49225. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.17.1. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function mt7921_load_patch. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory leak vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-401. The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mt76: mt7921s: fix a possible memory leak in mt7921_load_patch Always release fw data at the end of mt7921_load_patch routine.

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-49225 since 02/26/2025. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 5.17.2 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch b301043384c5c2447357952be9a536c2026d8ad0/11005b18f453aa192d035d410c11d07edcba5a45 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Operating System

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• Linux

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• Kernel

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• 5.17.0
• 5.17.1

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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