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CVE-2022-50449: clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll()

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-10-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll() If clk_register() fails, @pll->rate_table may have allocated memory by kmemdup(), so it needs to be freed, otherwise will cause memory leak issue, this patch fixes it.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 3.12 before 4.14.303; from 4.15 before 4.19.270; from 4.20 before 5.4.229; from 5.5 before 5.10.163; from 5.11 before 5.15.86; from 5.16 before 6.0.16 — fixed in 4.14.303, 4.19.270, 5.10.163, 5.15.86, 5.4.229, 6.0.16

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.14.303, 4.19.270, 5.10.163, 5.15.86. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e8dc0626fe86ae08914478dec1419618c557bc0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4887ec922e407b4feaf060c7b099482a5c52dee3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e501a31af8efa593a2f003637b56d00b75dca23
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5174e5b0d1b669a489524192b6adcbb3c54ebc72
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b738276a596fa101d320591e9fa84ea0fc3f713
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a00b4e0fa27317957536abf8f5d6a96d6cb9d9be
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a35323218ff32782d051d2643912311a22e07b6a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da13355bb9961316d124f94dfc7a1385d0fb035a

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