CVE-2026-46221 (GCVE-0-2026-46221)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-28 09:40
Modified
2026-06-14 18:03
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: EDAC/versalnet: Fix device name memory leak The device name allocated via kzalloc() in init_one_mc() is assigned to dev->init_name but never freed on the normal removal path. device_register() copies init_name and then sets dev->init_name to NULL, so the name pointer becomes unreachable from the device. Thus leaking memory. Use a stack-local char array instead of using kzalloc() for name.
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Linux Linux Version: d5fe2fec6c40dda03df8cc9b4a97de0b7e39f984
Version: d5fe2fec6c40dda03df8cc9b4a97de0b7e39f984
Version: d5fe2fec6c40dda03df8cc9b4a97de0b7e39f984
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