Linux Kernel up to 5.18.5 platform_get_resource memory leak

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.18.5. Impacted is the function platform_get_resource. Such manipulation leads to memory leak. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2022-49713. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.18.5. Affected by this issue is the function platform_get_resource. 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: usb: dwc2: Fix memory leak in dwc2_hcd_init usb_create_hcd will alloc memory for hcd, and we should call usb_put_hcd to free it when platform_get_resource() fails to prevent memory leak. goto error2 label instead error1 to fix this.

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-49713 since 02/26/2025. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 4.14.285, 4.19.249, 5.4.200, 5.10.124, 5.15.49 or 5.18.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 981ee40649e5fd9550f82db1fbb3bfab037da346/84e6d0af87e27bbc0db94f2e7323b34abe17b6e5/6506aff2dc2f7059aa3d45ee2e8639b25e87090f/a44a8a762f7fe9ad3c065813d058e835a6180cb2/701d8ec01e0f229d4db6f43d3d64ee479120cbeb/52bfcedbfd5bf962dbdcb6e761f4d0dd3ba26dfd/3755278f078460b021cd0384562977bf2039a57a 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.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 4.14.284
• 4.19.248
• 5.4.199
• 5.10.123
• 5.15.0
• 5.15.1
• 5.15.2
• 5.15.3
• 5.15.4
• 5.15.5
• 5.15.6
• 5.15.7
• 5.15.8
• 5.15.9
• 5.15.10
• 5.15.11
• 5.15.12
• 5.15.13
• 5.15.14
• 5.15.15
• 5.15.16
• 5.15.17
• 5.15.18
• 5.15.19
• 5.15.20
• 5.15.21
• 5.15.22
• 5.15.23
• 5.15.24
• 5.15.25
• 5.15.26
• 5.15.27
• 5.15.28
• 5.15.29
• 5.15.30
• 5.15.31
• 5.15.32
• 5.15.33
• 5.15.34
• 5.15.35
• 5.15.36
• 5.15.37
• 5.15.38
• 5.15.39
• 5.15.40
• 5.15.41
• 5.15.42
• 5.15.43
• 5.15.44
• 5.15.45
• 5.15.46
• 5.15.47
• 5.15.48
• 5.18.0
• 5.18.1
• 5.18.2
• 5.18.3
• 5.18.4
• 5.18.5

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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