CVE-2022-27950

Summary

CVECVE-2022-27950
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-03-28 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-04-05 13:08:00 UTC
DescriptionIn drivers/hid/hid-elo.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.11, a memory leak exists for a certain hid_parse error condition.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-401

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HID: elo: fix memory leak in elo_probe · torvalds/linux@817b8b9 · GitHub MISC github.com
oss-security - Memory leak in Linux HID-elo driver MISC www.openwall.com
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org
cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.11 MISC cdn.kernel.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160210 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2022-7683)
  • 184620 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2022-27950)
  • 240815 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2022:7444)
  • 240817 Red Hat Update for kernel security (RHSA-2022:7683)
  • 243041 Red Hat Update for kernel security (RHSA-2024:1188)
  • 900810 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (9199)
  • 901325 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (9199-1)
  • 901825 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (9209)
  • 902075 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (9209-1)
  • 906103 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (9199-2)
  • 906421 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (9209-2)
  • 940732 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel (ALSA-2022:7683)
  • 940766 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel-rt (ALSA-2022:7444)
  • 960176 Rocky Linux Security Update for kernel-rt (RLSA-2022:7444)
  • 960184 Rocky Linux Security Update for kernel (RLSA-2022:7683)
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