CVE-2022-49874 (GCVE-0-2022-49874)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-01 14:10
Modified
2026-05-11 19:08
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: hyperv: fix possible memory leak in mousevsc_probe() If hid_add_device() returns error, it should call hid_destroy_device() to free hid_dev which is allocated in hid_allocate_device().
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Linux Linux Version: 74c4fb058083b47571a4f76dcfce95085f2d8098
Version: 74c4fb058083b47571a4f76dcfce95085f2d8098
Version: 74c4fb058083b47571a4f76dcfce95085f2d8098
Version: 74c4fb058083b47571a4f76dcfce95085f2d8098
Version: 74c4fb058083b47571a4f76dcfce95085f2d8098
Version: 74c4fb058083b47571a4f76dcfce95085f2d8098
Version: 74c4fb058083b47571a4f76dcfce95085f2d8098
Version: 74c4fb058083b47571a4f76dcfce95085f2d8098
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