UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50565

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50565

    Published: 22 Oct 2025Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-50565

    Summary:

    Details: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: plfxlc: fix potential memory leak in __lf_x_usb_enable_rx() urbs does not be freed in exception paths in __lf_x_usb_enable_rx(). That will trigger memory leak. To fix it, add kfree() for urbs within "error" label. Compile tested only.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-50565, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50565, https://git.kernel.org/linus/895b3b06efc285c1245242e9638b9ae251dc13ec, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/286464463a05cb4bad80b134e24f8ffaab20bee4, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/895b3b06efc285c1245242e9638b9ae251dc13ec, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fce7e46273649d9cdcd98d89551975a65f206a14

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-hwe-edge

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.8.0-28.30~16.04.1
    4.8.0-30.32~16.04.1
    4.8.0-32.34~16.04.1
    4.8.0-34.36~16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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