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CVE-2022-50521

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2025-10-07 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: mxm-wmi: fix memleak in mxm_wmi_call_mx[ds|mx]() The ACPI buffer memory (out.pointer) returned by wmi_evaluate_method() is not freed after the call, so it leads to memory leak. The method results in ACPI buffer is not used, so just pass NULL to wmi_evaluate_method() which fixes the memory leak.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-401

References