CVE-2022-24959

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    CVE-2022-24959

    Published: 11 Feb 2022Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. There is a memory leak in yam_siocdevprivate in drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c.

    References: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.5, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html, https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5092, https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/29eb31542787e1019208a2e1047bb7c76c069536

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
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