CVE-2022-50537

firmware: raspberrypi: fix possible memory leak in rpi_firmware_probe()

Published: 10/7/2025 Last updated: 5/11/2026 Reserved: 10/7/2025

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: raspberrypi: fix possible memory leak in rpi_firmware_probe() In rpi_firmware_probe(), if mbox_request_channel() fails, the 'fw' will not be freed through rpi_firmware_delete(), fix this leak by calling kfree() in the error path.

CNA assigner: Linux (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (29)

albatross cdrom conf-bpftool conf-libbpf conf-linux-libc-dev core core_unix hvsock mirage-block-unix mm ocaml-probes ortools_solvers orun rawlink rawlink-eio rawlink-lwt restricted shell solo5 solo5-bindings-hvt solo5-bindings-spt solo5-cross-aarch64 solo5-kernel-ukvm tracy-client tuntap uring vhd-format vhd-format-lwt xapi-stdext-unix

Products affected (4)

Product	Vendor	Version
Linux	Linux	n/a
Linux	Linux	2.0.3 (and earlier)
Linux	Linux	< 17.2R1-S8
Linux	Linux	< 17.3R2

CVE-2022-50537

firmware: raspberrypi: fix possible memory leak in rpi_firmware_probe()

Opam packages affected (29)

Products affected (4)

References (12)