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CVE-2022-49893

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2025-05-01 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/region: Fix cxl_region leak, cleanup targets at region delete When a region is deleted any targets that have been previously assigned to that region hold references to it. Trigger those references to drop by detaching all targets at unregister_region() time. Otherwise that region object will leak as userspace has lost the ability to detach targets once region sysfs is torn down.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-401

References