CVE-2022-50175

media: tw686x: Fix memory leak in tw686x_video_init

EPSS 0.2%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

18 Jun 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: tw686x: Fix memory leak in tw686x_video_init video_device_alloc() allocates memory for vdev, when video_register_device() fails, it doesn't release the memory and leads to memory leak, call video_device_release() to fix this.

Affected products

Linux · Linux

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0597bcf774896a002edcc7934a9cdbb932b66702 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/611f86965df013d6021e6cd0d155b1734ad2cf21 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b412db51db24dfba22c96948580d4a12f831397 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c142a7531b90c6b0f946c82d3f504b3f36a207df https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0b212ec9d8177d6f7c404315293f6a085d6ee42