CVE-2022-50727

scsi: efct: Fix possible memleak in efct_device_init()

N/A
Published: December 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: efct: Fix possible memleak in efct_device_init() In efct_device_init(), when efct_scsi_reg_fc_transport() fails, efct_scsi_tgt_driver_exit() is not called to release memory for efct_scsi_tgt_driver_init() and causes memleak: unreferenced object 0xffff8881020ce000 (size 2048): comm "modprobe", pid 465, jiffies 4294928222 (age 55.872s) backtrace: [<0000000021a1ef1b>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x110 [<000000004c3ed51c>] target_register_template+0x4fd/0x7b0 [target_core_mod] [<00000000f3393296>] efct_scsi_tgt_driver_init+0x18/0x50 [efct] [<00000000115de533>] 0xffffffffc0d90011 [<00000000d608f646>] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4e0 [<0000000067828cf1>] do_init_module+0x1cc/0x6a0 ...

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.14 ≤ v < 5.15.865.14 ≤ v < 6.0.165.14 ≤ v < 6.1.25.14 ≤ v < 6.24df84e8466242de835416a4ec0c856c0e2ed26eb5.14
Vendor states this is fixed in 038359eeccffaf0de4c1c9c51ee19cc5649619a1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 0c6e6bb30229b1297ac0fd7ede2941d2322fc736 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bb0cd225dd37df1f4a22e36dad59ff33178ecdfc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c7e96168a8ca3be96c4959475164bef31115f07e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.14 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.86 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.0.16 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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